Einstein once asked the question: “How much choice did God have in constructing the universe?” If the no
boundary proposal is correct, he had no freedom at all to choose initial conditions. He would, of course, still
have had the freedom to choose the laws that the universe obeyed. This, however, may not really have been all
that much of a choice; there may well be only one, or a small number, of complete unified theories, such as the
heterotic string theory, that are self-consistent and allow the existence of structures as complicated as human
beings who can investigate the laws of the universe and ask about the nature of God.