Physicist Stephen Hawking is certainly not the first scientist to dismiss thousands of years of religious belief, but he&amp;#8217;s the latest. And he&amp;#8217;s got a new book. Hawking and Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow, in &amp;#8220;The Grand Design,&amp;#8221; tackle questions both scientific and philosophical, exploring man&amp;#8217;s understanding of how life came to be. The authors argue [...]