> "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
>
> “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
>
> "…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
> 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