“the idea that God created the universe [is] a more respectable hypothesis today than at any time in the last 100 years.”
unfortunately, that begs the obvious question; ‘and who created God?’...
In my opinion that question would be jumping the shark.
Plenty of time to get to what is not important right now.
Seems to me attempting to resist the folks who are attempting to destroy a portion of what God created would be a bit more of a priority.
Not really. God is infinite and eternal. There has to be an uncaused cause and that is God.