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The
Odds Favour a Designer
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It is not merely the realization that the universe had a beginning which leads scientists to contemplate a Creator-God. They have discovered that the fundamental numbers are just right for the generation of life. Stephen Hawking is considered by many to be the most brilliant physicist since Albert Einstein.
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Stephen
Hawking (1942- )
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Hawking points out
that:
"The
odds against a universe like ours emerging out of... the big bang
are enormous. I think there are clearly religious implications..."
[Stephen Hawking..., by K. Ferguson, p. 93.]
The Big Bang is fundamentally
a giant explosion of cosmic proportions. Explosions are notoriously
destructive. For an explosion to produce anything constructive,
should surprise us. Allan Sandage, winner of the Crafoord prize
in astronomy, says:
" I find
it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has
to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is
the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something
instead of nothing." [The Creator..., p. 116]
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