Yeah, the public loves those quotes by Jody - I mean Al
Cause everybody wants who they think is the smartest man who ever
lived to agree with their own ideas. Plus people think if one works in
cosmology, or is even an amateur astronomer, they automatically have
all the answers regarding Life, the Universe, and Everything.
That's why Stephen Hawking gets questions about God all the time,
though his views on that topic are pretty similar to Einstein's, which is
that he "believes" in the physical laws of the Universe. But a lot of
people don't like or get that answer, funny enough. They want God to
play dice and such.