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“More than 140 different 'exterior' features of the universe, including the values of the constants that govern the laws of physics, must fit within narrowly specified ranges. This reality reasonably points to a Source with the capacity for intentionality, for deliberate, purposeful design and implementation—in other words, a Creator who transcends the well-crafted cosmos.”
― Designed to the Core
― Designed to the Core
“Neptune's complex migration history, known as the 'jumping Neptune' altered the Kuiper Belt's properties in the ways, all of which have a bearing on the possibility for advanced life and civilization on Earth.”
― Designed to the Core
― Designed to the Core
“We live today in the grand age of diversion, and the reasons why are obvious. With our economic prosperity, our high-tech devices and the cornucopia of entertainment pressing for our attention, we can surround ourselves with diversion from the cradle to grave. We do not focus our attention on anything for long. We do not ask what 'the good life' is and what it requires. Happiness is a small circle, and it is no surprise that the last thing on most people's minds at any moment is the question of the meaning of life, the coming of death and the priorities that are needed to choose wisely. What Socrates call the 'unexamined life' that is 'not worth living' now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.”
― Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion
― Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion
“All the scientists were upstaged at least 2,500 years earlier by Job, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and other Bible authors. The Bible’s prophets and apostles stated explicitly and repeatedly the two most fundamental properties of the big bang, a transcendent cosmic beginning a finite time ago and a universe undergoing a general expansion.”
― The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God
― The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God
“The history and features of the solar system's asteroid-comet belts, along with the gravitational influences of the Moon's mass and early orbital proximity, ensured that Earth would receive sufficient impact events, especially before animals appeared, to salt Earth's crust with rich ore deposits. These ores played a crucial role in the early launch of metallurgy and, more recently, in the development of global, high-technology civilization. On the other hand, major impact events during the human era have been so infrequent as to pose no risk to humanity's survival nor to global civilization.”
― Designed to the Core
― Designed to the Core
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