The Universe Doesn't Have a Cause

"I would feel disingenuous taking on the argument about whether if the universe has a cause, that cause is a person," he says. "That language to my ear is misleading and paints a picture much like the one of the tiger popping into existence in my living room behind me right here." David Hume: I have never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise without a cause. He regarded its denial as metaphysically absurd. And so he believed the principle. The causal principle is a metaphysical assumption of the column cosmological argument," writes Hawking.