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10. Stephen Jay Gould, Rocks of Ages, 14.
11. Phillip E. Johnson, “The Church of Darwin,” Wall Street Journal (August 16, 1999).
12. See: Malcolm W. Browne, “Clues to Universe Origin Expected,” New York Times (March 12, 1978).
13. Fred Hoyle, “The Universe: Past and Present Reflections,” Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophyics 20 (1982).
14. Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 203.
15. Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 10.
16. Steven H. Gifis, Law Dictionary (Woodbury, N.Y.: Barron’s Educational Series, 1975), 33–34.
17. David Briggs, “Science, Religion Are Discovering Commonality in Big Bang Theory,” Los Angeles Times (May 2, 1992).
18. See: Michael Shermer, How We Believe (New York: W. H. Freeman, 2000), 72–73, 251.
19. Sharon Begley, “Science Finds God,” Newsweek (July 20, 1998).
20. Michael Shermer, How We Believe, xxix.
21. Kenneth R. Miller, Finding Darwin’s God (New York: Cliff Street Books, paperback edition, 2000), 28.
22. Ibid., 101.
23. Ibid.
24. G. C. Williams, Natural Selection: Domains, Levels and Challenges (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 73, 72.
25. George Ayoub, “On the Design of the Vertebrate Retina,” Origins & Design 17:1, Winter, 1996.
26. Romans 8:22: “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.”`
Chapter 5: The Evidence of Cosmology: Beginning with a Bang
1. Gregg Easterbrook, “The New Convergence,” Wired (December 2002).
2. C. J. Isham, “Creation of the Universe as a Quantum Process,” in: R. J. Russell, W. R. Stoeger, and G. V. Coyne, editors, Physics, Philosophy, and Theology (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory, 1988), 378, quoted in William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, revised edition, 1994), 328.
3. Discover (April 2002).
4. Genesis 1:1.
5. “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light”—Genesis 1:3.
6. This is not to suggest that questions concerning the age of the universe aren’t important. My goal at this point, however, was to sidestep biblical debates over this issue and instead see whether the evidence most widely conceded by non-Christian scientists pointed toward or away from God.
7. Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes (New York: Basic Books, updated edition, 1988), 5.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., 6.
10. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (New York: Broadway, 2003), 10.
11. Ibid., 13.
12. Quoted in Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (New York: W. W. Norton, second edition, 1992), 104.
13. Dennis Overbye, “Are They a) Geniuses or b) Jokers?” New York Times (November 9, 2002).
14. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, 13.
15. See: Stuart C. Hackett, The Resurrection of Theism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, second edition, 1982).
16. William Lane Craig and Mark S. McLeod, editors, The Logic of Rational Theism: Exploratory Essays (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1990), 11.
17. William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith, 92.
18. William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), 135.
19. Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang (New York: Touchstone, 1998), 265.
20. Brad Lemley, “Guth’s Grand Guess,” Discover (April 2002).
21. Ibid., 35.
22. David Hume, The Letters of David Hume, Two Volumes, J.Y.T. Greig, editor (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 1:187, quoted in: William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith, 93.
23. Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996), 20.
24. Kai Nielsen, Reason and Practice (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), 48.
25. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (New York: W.W. Norton, revised edition, 1992), 14.
26. George H. Smith, Atheism (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1989), 239 (emphasis in original).
27. David M. Brooks, The Necessity of Atheism (New York: Freethought Press Association, 1933), 102–103, quoted in: Ibid.
28. For a summary of evidence for the Resurrection see: Lee