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| "The explosive
vigour of the universe is thus matched
with almost unbelievable accuracy to its
gravitating power. The big bang was not
evidently, any old bang, but an explosion
of exquisitely arranged magnitude."
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| Paul Davies, Superforce:
The Search for a Grand Unified Theory
of Nature, 1984, p. 184 |
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“If
the rate of expansion one second after the
big bang had been smaller by even one part
in a hundred thousand million million, the
universe would have recollapsed before it
ever reached its present size.”
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History Of Time,
Bantam Press, London: 1988, p. 121-125
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"…Something else
has to be behind things, somehow guiding
them. And that, one might say, is a kind
of mathematical proof of divinity."
Guy Marchie, American Science Writer
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| Guy Murchie, The Seven
Mysteries of Life, Boston: The Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1978, p. 598 |
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| "If the world's
finest minds can unravel only with difficulty
the deeper workings of nature, how could
it be supposed that those workings are
merely a mindless accident, a product
of blind chance?" |
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| Paul Davies, Superforce,
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984, p.
235-236 |
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"The Earth, with
its atmosphere and oceans, its complex
biosphere, its crust of relatively oxidised,
silica rich, sedimentary, igneous, and
metamorphic rocks overlaying [a magnesium
silicate mantle and core] of metallic
iron, with its ice caps, deserts, forests,
tundra, jungles, grasslands, fresh-water
lakes, coal beds, oil deposits, volcanoes,
fumaroles, factories, automobiles, plants,
animals, magnetic field, ionosphere, mid-ocean
ridges, convincing mantle... is a system
of stunning complexity."
J. S. Lewis, American Geologist
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| F. Press, R. Siever,
Earth, New York: W. H. Freeman, 1986,
p. 2 |
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"That the radiation
from the sun (and from many sequence stars)
should be concentrated into a minuscule
band of the electromagnetic spectrum which
provides precisely the radiation required
to maintain life on earth is very remarkable."
Ian Campbell, British Physicist
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| Ian M. Campbell, Energy
and the Atmosphere, London: Wiley, 1977,
p.1-2 |
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"This, as most
other of the Atheists' Arguments, proceeds
from a deep Ignorance of Natural Philosophy;
for if there were but half the sea that
now is, there would also be but half the
Quantity of Vapours, and consequently
we could have but half as many Rivers
as now there are to supply all the dry
land we have at present, and half as much
more; for the quantity of Vapours which
are raised, as well as to the heat which
raised them. The Wise Creator therefore
did so prudently order it, that the seas
should be large enough to supply Vapours
sufficient for all the land."
John Ray, 18th century British Naturalist
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| John Ray, The Wisdom
of God Manifested in the Word of Creation,
1701; Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny,
p. 73 |
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"There is a mind
and purpose behind the universe. There
are hints of that divine presence in how
abstract mathematics can penetrate the
universe's secrets, which suggests that
a rational mind created the world. Nature
is fined tuned to allow life and consciousness
to emerge."
John Polkinghorne, British Physicist
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| "Science Finds
God", Newsweek, 27 July 1998 |
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| "In its standard
form, the big bang theory assumes that
all parts of the universe began expanding
simultaneously. But how could all the
different parts of the universe synchronize
the beginning of their expansion? Who
gave the command?" |
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| Andrei Linde, "The
Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe",
Scientific American, vol. 271, 1994, p.
48 |
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