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Physicists speak of four fundamental forces in nature: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Physicist Richard Morris writes: “Every one of these forces must have just the right strength if there is to be any possibility of life.”
What are the chances that all the functional proteins necessary for life might form in one place by random events? Hoyle and Wickramasinghe calculated the odds at 1 in 10 to the 40,000, a number far removed from the realm of finite possibilities.
Nobel laureate Francis Crick (who first cracked the DNA code) has concluded, like Hoyle and a number of others, that life could not have originated here on earth by any natural process.
Experiment and calculation have led these physicists and biologists this far; but because of their refusal to consider the Biblical explanation, they have been forced to resort to the panspermia hypothesis: the idea that life’s genetic material was sent here from somewhere else.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that the universe is wearing down, becoming less ordered, so that less energy is available for work. But no law or theory tells us anything about how the universe got into its low entropy (highly ordered) state to begin with. Roger Penrose’s calculations show that this highly ordered initial state for the universe is not something that could have occurred by chance.
‘ Our universe is precariously balanced between expansion and collapse, between an expansion force that prohibits the universe from crashing back into itself early in the expansion, and enough gravitational force so that matter can collect into galaxies rather than disperse into gases. The ratio between the universe’s actual density to the critical density is called Omega.
George Smoot says, “The most minute deviation either side of an Omega of 1 consigns our potential universe to oblivion.”
According to the findings of 20th-century physics, matter and antimatter must have been produced in equal amounts in any conversion of energy into mass associated with the creation event. But this forces physicists to acknowledge yet another finely tuned parameter to bring about our habitable universe. Particles of matter must have slightly outnumbered particles of antimatter by an extremely critical amount. Once again, it appears that a very precise selection was made.
Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson writes, “The more I exam ne the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.” NASA astronomer John O’Keefe says, “It is my view that these circumstances indicate that the Universe was created for man to live in.”
The Limits of Scientists
Those scientists who claim that science tells them something about the ultimate origins are not being quite honest, be they atheists or creationists. Science is limited by what can be known from observation of phenomena that belong to the cause-effect chain, which big bang cosmologists admit cannot be extended back before the time known as Planck time, when all the laws of nature break down near the point of singularity (the big bang).
Before this Planck moment (named after Max Planck, a pioneer of quantum physics), the particles we know today could not have existed. According to modern physics, this point occurred 10 -43 seconds after the big bang, * when the universe was an unbelievably hot point smaller than an atom.
Princeton’s influential cosmologist, Jeremiah Ostriker, states:
If’ you extrapolate back and back in time, the universe will become so dense that you will need quantum mechanics. And we know we don’t have a quantum theory of gravity. At what time does this become a serious problem? At the Planck time. So we cannot extrapolate back our current theories before the Planck time.
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