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ABC anchor Diane Sawyer has a hard time coping with atheism. "It does not seem to make you sad, ever, that we are so insignificant in the universe?" she asked physicist Stephen Hawking, when he told her that the existence of God was "implausible" and that human life is "accidental." The wheelchairbound Hawking has suffered from Lou Gehrig's Disease for more than 40 years and is forced to answer Sawyer's questions at a typing pace of two words per minute by twitching a single muscle in his right cheek. Sawyer's conclusion about Hawking's philosophy was that "it is the glory of being human to set out in search of the mystery" of God's arbitrariness--so she did fit God in there somehow.
Sawyer has some nerve in singling out human insignificance as the thing that might make Hawking sad. How about that ghastly illness?
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