“Good luck with that pocket watch found in the deep woods, which you prefer to insist got there by complete chance, without an intelligence behind it’s existence.”
Just because you don’t understand how the Universe could exist without an “intelligence” behind it doesn’t mean that there actually was one.
And if this “intelligence” exists, how did it come to exist? What is it made of? How does it think? How does it interact with the universe in order to create things?
I don’t know ... and neither do you or Stephen Hawking. Stephen is a great mind and will readily affirm there are things he just doesn’t know. That he doesn’t know doesn’t mean they are not real. The analogy of the watch was meant to offerf you a moment of reflection upon that very aspect of ‘faith’ as something humans use when they cannot know ‘how’. ... Watchout for those armless chairs in your future.