Me: "I do not go as far as Stephen Hawking, who has argued that no god could have brought about the big bang because before the big bang, time did not exist and therefore there was no time for any god to do his work."

Jack: If find this highly unlikely.

Whoops - that must be blind faith, Jack, as the evidence that Hawking has put forward exactly that argument is there for all to read in The Grand Design, which he co-authored and you have obviously not read.