Does God believe in Professor Hawking?

So has Stephen Hawking done away with the need for God - using the word in its widest meaning? I don't pretend to understand half of what Hawking is talking about, but I keep coming up against this fundamental problem - however you slice it, there must have been a time when there was nothing followed by a time when there was something, and according to my (perhaps imperfect) understanding, this contravenes a basic law of physics, and therefore, by definition, must have been a super-natural event, and therefore caused by some supernatural entity. So it seems to me that we can't get away from the need to have "God" as the original creator of everything.