Status Updates From القضية... الخالق

“the fine-tuning of the universe, they’re generally referring to the extraordinary balancing of the fundamental laws and parameters of physics and the initial conditions of the universe. Our minds can’t comprehend the precision of some of them. The result is a universe that has just the right conditions to sustain life. The coincidences are simply too amazing to have been the result of happenstance”

“In three minutes, 98% of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.”

“All of us have a tendency to minimize God, to think and behave as if we weren’t really immersed in his creation and that we aren’t ourselves the product of his unimaginable creative power. Looking at the evidence — in nature and in Scripture — reminds me over and over again of who he is. And it reminds me of who I am too — someone in need of him.”

“New narratives are created; new stories are told. The theory of evolution, now unsupported by the original icon, is never questioned; instead, it’s used afresh to justify a redesigned model.”

“Believing that evolution occurred — that humans and all other living things are related as part of creation’s giant family tree, that it is possible that the first cell arose by the natural processes of chemical evolution — neither requires nor even promotes an atheistic worldview.”

another book just on my shelf! this only has 65 pages but for whatever reason, all the editions on here have like 350+ pages oops