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Title: He calls them all by name because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, not o


1
To whom then will you liken Me that I would be
his equal?" says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created
these stars, the One who leads forth their host
by number,
He calls them all by name because of the
greatness of His might and the strength of His
power, not one of them is missing. Isaiah 4025-26
2
The heavens are telling of the glory of God and
their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night
reveals knowledge. Psalms 191-2
3
For since the creation of the world His invisible
attributes, His eternal power and divine nature,
have been clearly seen, being understood through
what has been made, so that they are without
excuse. Romans 120
4
The fool has said in his heart, "There is no
God," Psalm 531
5
Every design has a designer
The universe has a highly complex design
Therefore, the universe has a Designer
6
Sir Isaac Newton is clearly the most influential
scientist who ever lived. His accomplishments in
mathematics optics, and physics laid the
foundations for modern science and revolutionized
the world.
7
I must confess to a feeling of profound humility
in the presence of a universe which transcends us
at almost every point. I feel like a child who
while playing by the seashore has found a few
bright colored shells and a few pebbles while the
whole vast ocean of truth stretches out almost
untouched and unruffled before my eager fingers.
8
Sir Isaac Newton and The Atheist
9
  • The story is told of an atheist scientist, a
    friend of Sir Isaac
  • Newton, who knocked on the door and came in after
    he had just
  • finished making his solar system machine (i.e.
    one of the machines
  • like the one in the science museum where
    you crank the handle
  • and the planets and moons move round). The man
    saw the
  • machine and said 'how wonderful' and went over to
    it and
  • started cranking the handle and the planets went
    round. As he
  • was doing this he asked, 'Who made this?' Sir
    Isaac stopped
  • writing and said 'nobody did'. Then he carried on
    writing. The
  • man said, 'you didn't hear me. Who made the
    machine?'  Newton
  • replied, 'I told you. Nobody did.' He
    stopped cranking and turned
  • to Isaac.

10
  • 'Now listen Isaac, this marvelous machine must
    have been
  • made by somebody don't keep saying that nobody
    made it. At
  • which point Isaac Newton stopped writing and got
    up. He looked at
  • him and said 'Now isn't it amazing. I tell
    you that nobody made a
  • simple toy like that and you don't believe me.
    Yet you gaze out into
  • the solar system the intricate marvelous
    machine that is around
  • you - and you dare say to me that no one made
    that. I
  • don't believe it'.
  • As far as the record goes the atheist went away
    and he was no
  • longer an atheist. He was suddenly converted to
    the idea that God
  • was behind the laws that were found in creation.

11
Complex Design
Designer? No Designer?
12
Does It Matter?
13
The Anthropic Principle
14
  • First suggested in a 1973 paper,
  • the Anthropic Principle is an
  • attempt to explain the observed
  • fact that the fundamental
  • constants of physics and
  • chemistry are just right or fine
  • tuned to allow the universe and
  • life as we know it to exist.

Brandon Carter Cosmologist, Astrophysicist
15
  • The Anthropic Principle says
  • that the seemingly arbitrary
  • and unrelated constants in
  • physics have one strange thing
  • in common-these are precisely
  • the values you need if you
  • want to have a universe
  • capable of producing life. The
  • universe gives the appearance
  • that it was designed to support
  • life on earth.

Brandon Carter Cosmologist, Astrophysicist
16
Anthropic Principles
  • Oxygen level 21
  • If 25 Spontaneous fires
  • If 15 Suffocation
  • Atmospheric transparency
  • Less Not enough solar radiation
  • More Too much solar radiation
  • Carbon Dioxide level
  • Higher Incinerate
  • Lower Suffocation
  • Moon-Earth gravity
  • Greater severe tidal effects
  • Less climactic instabilities
  • Gravitational force
  • If altered
  • 0.000000000000000000000000000
  • 0000000001, the sun would not
  • exist.

17
Anthropic Principles
  • Centrifugal force
  • If not balanced precisely with
  • gravitational force, nothing could be
  • held in orbit around sun
  • Jupiters orbit
  • If not in current orbit, earth
  • would be bombarded with space
  • material
  • Earths crust
  • If thicker, too much oxygen
  • If thinner, volcanic, tectonic
  • activity make life impossible
  • Earths rotation
  • If longer, temperature differences
  • too great
  • If shorter, atmospheric wind
  • velocities too great

18
Anthropic Principles
  • Tilt of earths axis (23.5 degrees)
  • If altered slightly, surface
  • temperatures would be too extreme
  • Expansion rate of the universe
  • if larger no galaxy formation
  • if smaller universe collapses prior
  • to star formation
  • Velocity of light
  • if larger stars would be too
  • luminous
  • if smaller stars would not be
  • luminous enough
  • Distance between galaxies
  • if larger insufficient gas would be
  • infused into our galaxy to sustain
  • star formation for a long enough time
  • if smaller the suns orbit would be
  • too radically disturbed,

19
Anthropic Principles
  • For these and other anthropic principles
  • http//www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/desig
    n_evidences/1998_design_evidence_update.shtml
  • and
  • The Creation Hypothesis-
  • Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer,
  • J.P. Moreland, editor
  • pp. 160-169

20
Anthropic Principles
  • Probability that these and other constants (122
    in all)
  • would exist for any planet in the universe by
    chance (i.e.
  • without divine design)
  • One chance in
  • 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  • 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  • 00000000000000000000000000000000000000
  • (Thats one chance in 10 followed by 138 zeros)

21
Admissions of unbelievers Quotes from Scientists
Regarding Design of the Universe
http//www.godandscience.org/apologetics/quote.htm
landI Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist
22
  • Professor Robert Jastrow - Ph.D.
  • (1948), from Columbia University
  • Chief of the Theoretical Division of the
  • National Aeronautics and Space
  • Administration(1958-61) and
  • Founder/Director of NASAs Goddard
  • Institute Professor of Geophysics at
  • Columbia University Professor of Space
  • Studies-Earth Sciences at Dartmouth
  • College. Writings include Astronomy
  • Fundamentals And Frontiers (Wiley,
  • 1972) God And The Astronomers
  • (Norton, 1978) The Enchanted Loom
  • (Touchstone, 1983) Has been described
  • by Paddy Chayevsky as "the greatest
  • writer on science alive today."

23
When the astronomer writes about God, his
colleagues assume he is either over the hill or
going bonkers. In my case it should be
understood from the start that I am an agnostic
in religious matters.
24
Now we see how the astronomical evidence
leads to a biblical view of the origin of the
world. The details differ, but the essential
elements in the astronomical and biblical
accounts of Genesis are the same the chain of
events leading to man commenced suddenly and
sharply at a definite moment in time, in a
flash of light and energy.
25
  • Astronomers now find they
  • have painted themselves into a
  • corner because they have
  • proven, by their own methods,
  • that the world began abruptly
  • in an act of creation to which
  • you can trace the seeds of every
  • star, every planet, every living
  • thing in this cosmos and on the
  • earth.

26
  • And they have found that all
  • this happened as a product of
  • forces they cannot hope to
  • discoverThat there are
  • what I or anyone would call
  • supernatural forces at work is
  • now, I think, a scientifically
  • proven fact.

27
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in
the power ofreason, the story ends like a bad
dream. He has scaled themountains ofignorance
he is about to conquer thehighest peak as he
pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted
by a band of theologians who have been sitting
there for centuries.
28
ROBERT WILSON and ARNO PENZIASShared
1978 Nobel Prize for physics
29
ARNO PENZIASShared 1978 Nobel Prize for physics
  • Astronomy leads us to a unique
  • event, a universe which was
  • created out of nothing and
  • delicately balanced to provide
  • exactly the conditions required
  • to support life. In the absence of
  • an absurdly improbable
  • accident, the observation of
  • modern science seem to suggest
  • an underlying, one might say,
  • supernatural plan.

30
ROBERT WILSONShared 1978 Nobel Prize for physics
  • Certainly there was
  • something that set it all
  • off. Certainly, if you are
  • religious, I cant think of
  • a better theory of the
  • origin of the universe to
  • match with Genesis.

31
  • Here is the cosmological proof of the
  • existence of God the design
  • argument of Paley updated and
  • refurbished. The fine tuning of the
  • universe provides prima facie
  • evidence of deistic design. Take your
  • choice blind chance that requires
  • multitudes of universes or design
  • that requires only one....Many
  • scientists, when they admit their
  • views, incline toward the
  • teleological or design argument.

Ed Harrison Cosmologist
32
  • "A common sense
  • interpretation of the facts
  • suggests that a super intellect
  • has monkeyed with physics, as
  • well as with chemistry and
  • biology, and that there are no
  • blind forces worth speaking
  • about in nature. The numbers
  • one calculates from the facts
  • seem to me so overwhelming as
  • to put this conclusion almost
  • beyond question."

Fred Hoyle British astrophysicist
33
  • The whole history of science
  • has been the gradual
  • realization that events do not
  • happen in an arbitrary
  • manner, but that they reflect
  • a certain underlying order,
  • which may or may not be
  • divinely inspired

Stephen Hawking Theoretical physicist
34
  • Many of the rather basic features of the
  • universe are determined in essence by the
  • values that are assigned to the
  • fundamental constants of nature,...and
  • these features would be drastically altered
  • if the constants assumed even moderately
  • different values. It is clear that for nature
  • to produce a cosmos even remotely
  • resembling our own, many apparently
  • unconnected branches of physics have to
  • cooperate to a remarkable degree.

Paul Davies Astrophysicist
35
  • our form of life depends, in delicate and
  • subtle ways, on several apparent
  • coincidences in the fundamental laws of
  • nature which make the Universe tick.
  • Without those coincidences, we would not
  • be here to puzzle over the problem of their
  • existence...What does this mean? One
  • possibility is that the Universe we know is
  • a highly improbable accident, just one of
  • those things

John Gribbin Astrophysicist
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