"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."
Paul Davies, Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of
Nature, 1984, p. 184
=93If 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.=94
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History Of Time, Bantam Press, London: 1988,
p. 121-125
"=85Something 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
Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life, Boston: The Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1978, p. 598
"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?"
Paul Davies, Superforce, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984, p.
235-236
"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
F. Press, R. Siever, Earth, New York: W. H. Freeman, 1986, p. 2
"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
Ian M. Campbell, Energy and the Atmosphere, London: Wiley, 1977, p.1-2
"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
John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Word of Creation, 1701;
Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny, p. 73
"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
"Science Finds God", Newsweek, 27 July 1998
"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?"
Andrei Linde, "The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe", Scientific
American, vol. 271, 1994, p. 48
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