Created Cosmos

If there is no God, and everything .. is a product of an accidental collocation of atoms, then there is no [reason] we were made. Tim Keller

"I am sure many physicists want to [take the leap of faith from science 2 religion].I only wish they would admit it " Physicist Tony Rothman

"I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance." Mathemetician Roger Penrose.

Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God – the design argument of Paley – updated and refurbished." Ed Harrison, cosmologist.

"Order is manifestly maintained in the universe..governed by the sovereign will of God" James P. Joule, author of 1st Law of Thermodynamics

Behind these (scientific) concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us .. By the grace of God. Werner Von Braun.

"It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe...The impression of design is overwhelming." Paul Davies

"Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us.." Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], physicist.

"I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life." Arthur Schawlow, Professor of Physics at Stanford, 1981 Nobel Prize in physics.

I love 2 think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks 2 us every hour, if we will only tune in. G.W,Carver

"Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one..." Cosmologist Edward R. Harrison

"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing .." Arno Penzias, winner of Nobel prize in physics.

"God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage

It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts. Isaiah 45:12

"Science brings men nearer to God." #quote Louis Pasteur, father of Microbiology and developer of the pastuerization process.

"What hath God wrought?" Samuel Morse, his first message using his new invention, the telegraph. Also, this is from the Bible: Numbers 23:23

"For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible..." Colossians 1:16

"[A]n acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed." Physicist James P. Joule

"The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator." Louis Pasteur, the "father" of the science of microbiology

No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution .. implies continuous change. James Maxwell

“human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more the Truths contained in the Sacred Scriptures.” Herschel

The cause of the Big Bang is, many believe: "God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist." Romans 4:17b

"When you’re doing physics, you’re wrestling with a champ ..You’re trying to find out how God made the world." Isidor I.Rabi, physicist

[My] faith begins with the realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. Physicist Arthur Compton

Einstein made it plain he did not believe in a personal God...but equally plain he believed in a Creator God. That's my message.

Einstein: [Atheists] "are creatures who–in their grudge against the traditional ‘opium for the people'–cannot bear the music of the spheres"

"I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and scientific knowledge." Physicist Charles Townes

“I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident" Antony Hewish, physicist

"The more we know, the less we know in many ways. The universe participates in the mystery of God." George Coyne, Dir of Vatican Observatory

Einstein:[Quantum Mechanics] "hardly brings us close to the secret of the Old One. I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice."

"The world is just so wonderful that I can't imagine it was just having come by pure chance." Arthur Schawlow, Physicist and Nobel Laureate

"It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls." Max Planck, physist & founder of quantum theory

Although Einstein didn't believe in a "personal" God, he did believe in a Creator God: He said: "I want to know how God created this world."

"I want to know how God created this world." #quote From "The Expanded Quotable Einstein," Calaprice, Princeton University Press, 2000 p.202

"God is personal yet omnipresent. A great source of strength, He has made an enormous difference 2me. Chas. Townes, founder of laser science

“We cannot be more certain of the existence of anything, than of the existence of a Being absolutely infinite or perfect .. God.” Spinoza

“It befits [astronomers] to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.” Johannes Kepler

Schroedinger:"Whence come I and whither go I? That is the..unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.”

"It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.” Max Planck, founder of quantum mechanics

"Modern science, properly understood, in no way condemns God .. to the role of a Deistic Absentee Landlord .." Physicist John Polkinghorne

"If there is a creator God, there is nothing illogical at all about the possibility of miracles." Timothy Keller

Einstein did not believe in a PERSONAL God, but definitely believed in a CREATOR God. Basically was a deist. See http://tinyurl.com/ydsloat

"God is not a localised observer in the chosen (time)frame but omnipresent within it." Physicist and theologian, John Polkinghorne

"There is a thought that stops all thought. That is the thought that ought to be stopped." G. K. Chesterton

Einstein: ". there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views."

"For me, the fundamental content of belief in God is that there is a Mind and Purpose behind the history of the universe." John Polkinghorne

Kepler: "Praise Him, ye celestial harmonies .. for those things of which we are entirely ignorant and those which we know only a tiny part."

"That unconscious atoms have combined to give rise to conscious beings is the most striking example of .. our universe." John Polkinghorne.

"Just because [all] is not sweetness and light, we cannot conclude either that God is absent or that God does not act .." Owen Gingerich

"Is everything that happens in the natural world fixed by the laws of physics?" Nancy Cartwright, Philosopher at London School of Economics

"What really interests me is whether God could have created the world any differently .." #quote by Albert Einstein. www.createdcosmos.com

What better way for the Creator of the universe to touch the heart and mind of man than to come to earth, live with us, die, and live again?

"Perhaps there is just one universe which is the way it is in its anthropic fruitfulness because .. of a Creator." John Polkinghorne.

There was not only a beginning, but according to Timothy Keller: "History is not cyclical. History is linear. There will be a last day."

"The sameness of the mitochondrial DNA suggests that the entire world population stems from a single source.." "God's Universe" by Gingerich

"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust-we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." Albert Einstein

R.C. Sproul: "For science and philosophy to continue the advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all."

"The God having the creative force to make the entire observable universe in a dense dot of pure energy is incomprehensible." Owen Gingerich

"That deeply emotional conviction of .. a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the .. universe, forms my idea of God." A. Einstein

"I want to know how God created this world..not this or that phenomenon..I want to know his thoughts. The rest are details." #quote Einstein

"There is every reason why the world cannot come into being without a cause. Reason itself is..why this premise must be rejected." RC Sproul

I believe the book of nature .. suggests a God of purpose and a God of design. And I think my belief makes me no less a scientist. Gingerich

2 things fill my mind with .. ever new & increasing wonder & awe .. the starry heaven above me and moral law within me. #quote Immanuel Kant

"Kepler's life and works provide central evidence that [one] can be both a creative scientist and a believer in divine design." O. Gingerich

To be "agnostic" in the Greek sense is to be a-gnosis, "without knowledge." The Latin equivalent is "ignoramus." R.C. Sproul: "Not a Chance"

"A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars." Walt Whitman

"I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance..." Charles Darwin to J. D.

G. W. Leibnitz said: "I hold that when God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but of grace." #quote

Whether atheist or theist a thoughtful person can only stand in awe of the way the universe seems designed as a home for humankind.Gingerich

Einstein: "[Quantum Mechanics] does not really bring us to the secret of the "old one." I ..am convinced that He is not playing dice."#quote

"I am personally persuaded that a superintelligent Creator exists beyond and within the cosmos" Owen Gingerich, Prof. of Astronomy emeritus

"The laws of nature are rigged not only in favor of complexity, or just in favor of life, but also in favor of mind." #quote Owen Gingerich

The number of estimated stars in all the galaxies of the universe vastly exceeds the number of grains of sand on all the world's beaches.

"Can I find God, whom I can almost grasp with my own hands lin looking at the universe, also in myself?" Johannes Kepler #quote #astronomy

"So vast, without any question, is the Divine Handiwork of the Almighty Creator!" Copernicus, De revolutionibus, 1543 #quote

"Belief in .. a Creator-God, gives a coherent understanding of why the universe seems .. designed for .. intelligent life." Owen Gingerich

Albert Einstein said "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." #quote www.createdcosmos.com

"Many scientists ascribe to Theistic Evolution [but] they are .. reluctant to speak out for fear of negative reaction.." Francis Collins

"I found it difficult to imagine there could be real conflict between scientific truth and spiritual truth. Truth is truth." Francis Collins

"The story of the Bible is an amazing story. It begins with nothing and then nothing becomes something." Mark Dever, pastor

We cannot discover, through science alone .. the answers to the questions "Why is there life anyway?" and "Why am I here?" Francis Collins

Galileo said: "I do not .. believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect intended us to forgo their use

"[God] solves some deeply troubling questions about what came before the Big Bang and why the universe seems to be tuned for us. F." Collins

The Big Bang seems to point strongly toward a Creator, since .. the question of what came before is left hanging in the air. Francis Collins

"The best data we have [on the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but .. the Bible .." Arno Penzias

"It would be difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of God .." Stephen Hawkings

"The Big Bang cries out for a divine explanation. I cannot see how nature could have created itself." Francis Collins, The Language of God.

Physicist Ernest Rutherford once said: "A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no d---- good." www.createdcosmos.com

"Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe . . the starry heavens without and the Moral law within." Immanuel Kant

Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, said: "..science is powerless to answer questions such as "Why did the universe come into being?"

Suppose science knew every single thing in the universe..Is it not plain that the question "Why is there a universe" would remain? CS Lewis

"I .. do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know .. as a scientist." Francis Colins

“If we need an atheist for a debate, I go to the philosophy department. The physics department isn’t much use.” Robert Griffiths, physicist

"I am myself a Christian, a member of a community that .. provides help .. and worships God in its own fashion." Freeman J. Dyson, physicist

Einstein: ". there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views."

Physicist Paul Davies said: "You may think I have written God entirely out of the picture. .But . . where do the laws of physics come from?"

C.S. Lewis: "Why [the universe] comes to be there at all and whether there is anything behind the things science observes" . is not science.

Academics today should consider "There is a thought that stops all thought. That is the thought that ought to be stopped." G. K. Chesterton

"Conscious experience, thought, value and so forth are not illusions, even though they cannot be identified with physical facts." T. Nagel

"The grand idea, common to many faiths, of a Creator of the Universe is . . difficult alike to demonstrate or to dismiss." Carl Sagan

Einstein said: "We know nothing about [God, the world] at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren." createdcosmos.com

Paul Davies: The laws that characterize our actual universe .. seem almost contrived-fine tuned . . so that life and consciousness ..emerge.

Scientists have yet to come up with a plausible explanation of what happened BEFORE the Big Bang. Why did we get SOMEthing from NOTHING?

[S]cience grew out of Christianity..modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind. Freeman Dyson

Stephen Hawking said: It would be very difficult to explain why the universe would have begun in just this way except as the act of a God...

Einstein said: "I'm not an atheist. The problem [how the universe began] involved is too vast for our limited minds."

Most people believe in intelligent design as a reasonable explanation of the universe . . & entirely compatible with science. Freeman Dyson

Many scientists see no incompatibility between faith in God and their work [in science]. Timothy Keller in Reason for God createdcosmos.com

Laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. P. Davies

"I believe science is possible because the physical world is a creation and we are .. "made in the image" of the Creator." John Polkinghorne

"A majority of scientists consider themselves .. religious..There is no necessary disjunction between science and faith." Timothy Keller

"I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip . ." Paul Davies

Some people in order to discover God read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Augustine

"By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship." Francis Collins, Dir Human Genome Proj

[S]cience is possible because the physical world is a creation and we are .. creatures made in the image of the Creator. John Polkinghorne

"Scientists cannot bear the thought of a natural phenomenon which cannot be explained, even with unlimited time and money." Robert Jastrow

"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from . . an intelligent and powerful Being." Isaac Newton

It would be perfectly consistent with all we know to say that there was a Being who was responsible for the laws of physics. Stephen Hawking

"The more I examine the universe . . the more evidence I find that [it] in some sense must have known we were coming." F. Dyson, physicist

"Not even by supposing the eternity of the world can we escape the ultimate, extramundane reason of things, i.e., God." G.W. Leibniz, 1697

"There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing." -George Smoot

Physicist Paul Davies said "Science is good at telling us how, but not so good on the why" [the universe was created].

Explaining this initial singularity—where and when it all began—still remains the most intractable problem of modern cosmology. Andrei Linde

"The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated." Scientist George Smoot.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics. -Fred Hoyle, British astrophysicist

Allan Sandage, astronomer: "We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural." May 9, 1996 from F. Heeren 1998

Einstein: ". there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views."

If a man like Einstein can believe in God, why can't the scientists of today?

When I consider your heavens . . the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him? Psalm 8:3