"I only caught some of it, but he said the universe can come out of nothing and because of that, there's no need for anybody to start anything and that since the big bang was the start of time itself, there was no time for a god to start it in."
I'm not sure why this still leaves room for any conception of god. Why postulate a god if the universe comes out of nothing? I've read a bit of some book that he wrote (A Brief History of Time, I think) where I think I remember him using god as a metaphor, which is why I thought he was doing that again initially.