Ken: This is where I got my information about the Big Bang. Though it says nothing about anything organizing or coming into being.
Ken, can you not read what the description of the Big Bang's series of subsequent developments and the makeup of the extraordinarily complex components it included? Do you actually need to see in type, "A grand intelligence designed and controlled the Big Bang," to see it obviously looks intelligently designed and controlled?
Why do you think even Stephen Hawking named his book with the title he did???!!!
In the foreword of the book, he even acknowledges the appearance of universal design as he asks the question: "Is the apparent ‘grand design’ of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion?" Of course, he disagrees with a designer God, but he does recognize that the universe APPEARS to be designed.
Why do you think American physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Compton said, "For myself, faith begins with the realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'"
Fred Hoyle (British astrophysicist): "A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect 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."
Frank Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics): "When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them.
I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics."
Antony Flew (Professor of Philosophy, former atheist, author, and debater) "It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design."
Einstein: "We see the universe
marvelously arranged and
obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws."
Einstein: "It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon
the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend
an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature."
Einstein, commenting on the mindset of scientists: "His religious feeling takes the form of
a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
Einstein: "If I hadn't
an absolute faith in the harmony of creation,
I wouldn't have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula."
Einstein: "As I've said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal—the search for truth. Hence it is absurd for religion to proscribe Galileo or Darwin or other scientists. And
it is equally absurd when scientists say that there is no God. The real scientist has faith, which does not mean that he must subscribe to a creed."
Einstein: "... every one who is seriously engaged in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble."
Over and over, our some of our greatest scientists have marveled at the design and precision of our universe, and it's incredibly fine-tuned organization. And while many of them have no explanation for it, they nonetheless recognize it. And all of those quotes are just a small sampling of what some of the world's greatest scientists have said about the obvious organization or the functionalities of he vast components of the universe. But you, Ken, can deny that what is clear to these men is the exact opposite of disorganization and chaos.
Ken: My problem with your claims is that you say an intelligence was involved, because such a claim would have to identify the intelligence.
That is a totally false statement that you've not well thought out - and I know you don't truly believe it.
