Tonight I finally got around to watching Discovery TV’s “Did God Create the Universe” featuring Stephen Hawking, which initially aired a couple of months ago.  I expected the program to be tendentious and it was, but I hoped it would be challenging, or at least interesting.  Sadly, it was neither. Hawking begins the show with a now all-too-familiar theme of the new atheists.  Religious explanations must recede before the ever advancing triumph of science.  We see a boatload of Vikings terrified by a solar eclipse, which, they believe, is caused by the wolf god eating the sun.  The Vikings bang their spears against their shields and scream at the sky, and when the sun reappears they are greatly relieved.  The message Read More ›