Religious conflict rolls across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia. A tiny, loony sect threatens to burn the Quran, and the world’s leaders respond. You might not think there could possibly be any room in the headlines for a debate about the divine stirred up by a mere physics book. Think again. Several weeks ago, the London Times devoted much of its front page to heralding just that: “Hawking: God did not create Universe: The Big Bang was inevitable consequence of laws of physics, says Britain’s most eminent scientist.” In a high-profile flurry of attention that any author would envy, the archbishop of Canterbury, Britain’s chief rabbi, and the chair of interfaith relations of the Muslim Council of Britain have all locked arms against Stephen Hawking’s anti-God fluctuation in his new book.