Elon Musk says he believes God is the creator

Elon Musk said he believes in God during a podcast episode released Tuesday evening. God is the creator, he said in an interview with Katie Miller, who is married to President Donald Trump’s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller. When the podcast host asked if Musk believed in God, he replied that he believed that this universe came from something. The tech billionaire said that people have different labels for what created the universe.

Later on in the episode, Musk said he thinks humanity is good overall. He then shifted to the question of how humans were formed. If humans and the universe did start out as a hydrogen gas cloud, then a person’s atoms could have been part of stars at different times, he said. Musk spoke on a variety of subjects, from artificial intelligence to immigration policies to Minnesota’s Rep. Ilhan Omar, during the interview.

What else did Musk say? He also told Miller that the disbanded Department of Government Efficiency, which he spearheaded, was somewhat successful in its federal spending cuts. But he said he wouldn’t take on such a project again. He said he should have focused on his companies, noting that perhaps then Tesla vehicles wouldn’t have been burned by vandals. Several individuals were arrested earlier this year for vandalizing Teslas in protest of Musk’s work for the Trump administration.

He added that DOGE’s name was “made up” based on internet suggestions.

What is Katie Miller’s connection to Musk? Miller worked as then-Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary during the first Trump administration. Earlier this year, she worked with Musk as a spokeswoman for DOGE. She went with Musk when he left the Trump administration in May and launched her podcast in August. 

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