Stephen Hawking Really?

Today while I was looking for something for my first blog. I ran across a story about Stephen Hawking the world famous physicist. In his new book "The Grand design" he says that God could not have created the universe and the universe could have only created it's self. Now to me this is just mind boggling to to think that someone thinks that the universe was created by its self. It sad to think about all the people who will go out and buy this book and believe it when we know that God created everything.