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Hawking marvels, in hindsight, at our inability to ponder an expanding universe before Hubble. He implies that the idea of an ever unchanging and everlasting universe may soothe our mortal woes.
St. Augustine is asked what God was doing before the universe; "preparing hell for people who asked such questions".
An expanding universe does not preclude god but sets limits on when he carried out his job