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When we consider what religion is for mankind and
what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of
history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations
between them.
Alfred North Whitehead, 1926 |
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orbits by the mere laws of gravity, yet they could by no means have at
first derived the regular position of the orbits themselves from those
laws. Thus, this most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets,
could only proceed from the council and dominion of an intelligent and
powerful Being.
General Scholium to the Principia |
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Psalm 19:1-4
The heavens declare the glory of God;
The skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
Night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language
Where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth,
Their words to the ends of the world. |
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Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- His
eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. |
| Sire, By coupling the undirected, purposeless
variations to the blind, uncaring process of natural selection, Darwin
made the theological or spiritual explanations of the life processes
superfluous.
Douglas Futuyma - Evolutionary Biology |
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Materialism
From eternity were the particles...
and the particles became complex living stuff.
And the living stuff became aware,
and the living stuff conceived of god. |
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Edwin Hubble |
Spiral Nebula |
Hubble's Sketch |
Hubble Space Telescope Image of Spiral Galaxy |
The 'Pinwheel' Galaxy |
Hubble Deep Field Image |
Hubble Deep Field Image |
Galaxies Listed by Distance and Red-Shift |
Mount Wilston |
Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble at Mount Wilson in 1931 |
Philosophically the notion of a
beginning of the present order is repugnant to me. I should like to find
a genuine loophole. I simply do not believe the present order of things
started off with a bang...the expanding Universe is preposterous... it
leaves me cold.
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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An infinitely old universe “would relieve us of the
necessity of understanding the origin of matter at any finite time in
the past.”
Robert Dicke, Princeton 1965 |
Arnio Penzias and Robert Willson |
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Gravitationally Lensed Image of Highest Red
Shift Galaxy - Hubble Space Telescope |
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Problems with the Oscillating Universe Model
- Not enough mass to cause a recollapse
- Energy available to do work would dissipate with each cycle
- Universe has low mechanical efficiency or "thermodynamic
elasticity" (Guth and Sher)
- An accelerating expansion?
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Stephen Meyer: The New Cosmology
Related Topics:
Source:
Presented at the 'Cosmos and Creator'conference sponsored by the C. S. Lewis Institute and the Discovery Institute
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