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29. George H. Smith, Atheism, 237.
30. Edmund Whittaker, The Beginning and End of the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1942), quoted in: Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 103, (emphasis added).
31. George H. Smith, Atheism, 237.
32. Einstein made this comment in a letter to Willem DeSitter. See: Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 21.
33. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 21. Said Jastow of Einstein: “We know he had well-defined feelings about God, but not as the Creator or the Prime Mover. For Einstein, the existence of God was proven by the laws of nature; that is, the fact that there was order in the Universe and man could discover it.”
34. Ibid., 104.
35. Ibid., 105.
36. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, 13.
37. See: Joseph Silk, The Big Bang (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1989), 311–12.
38. Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Ballantine, 1993), 4.
39. See: Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters News Agency, “Princeton Physicist Offers Theory of Cyclic Universe,” Orange County (Calif.) Register (April 26, 2002).
40. The Business Week Best-Seller List, Business Week (December 31, 2001).
41. See: Michael Shermer, How We Believe, 102.
42. Ibid.
43. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), 141.
44. As a side note, Craig said singularities do not have to be a mathematical point in time, but could theoretically have different geometries.
45. See: Michael White and John Gribbin, Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science (New York: Plume/Penguin, 1992).
46. Michael Shermer, How We Believe, 103.
47. See: Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996).
48. See: www.hawking.org.uk/about/aindex.html (accessed June 7, 2003).
49. The Four Spiritual Laws were written by the late Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, as a summary of the gospel. Law No. 1: God loves you and created you to know him personally. He has a wonderful plan for your life (John 3:16; John 17:3). Law No. 2: People are sinful and separated from God, so we cannot know him personally or experience his life and plan (Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23). Law No. 3: Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for our sin. Through him alone we can know God personally and experience God’s love and plan (Romans 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:3–6; John 14:6). Law No. 4: We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know God personally and experience his love (John 1:12; Ephesians 2:8, 9; John 3:1–8, Revelation 3:20). See: www.campuscrusadeforChrist.org (accessed June 9, 2003).
Chapter 6: The Evidence of Physics: The Cosmosona Razor’s Edge
1. Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), 189.
2. John Templeton, The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God (Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation, 1998), 19.
3. For a description of the dynamics between Christian and non-Christian spouses, based on the experiences that Leslie and I had during the era when she was a Christian and I was an atheist, see Lee and Leslie Strobel, Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2002).
4. See: Patrick Glynn, “The Making and Unmaking of an Atheist,” in: God: The Evidence (Rocklin, Calif.: Forum, 1997), 1–20.
5. Ibid., 22.
6. Ibid., 55, 53.
7. Alister McGrath, Glimpsing the Face of God (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002), 19.
8. John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 10.
9. Walter L. Bradley, “The ‘Just So’ Universe,” in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, Signs of Intelligence, 170.
10. Paul Davies, The Mind of God (New York: Touchstone, 1992), 16, 232.
11. Edward Harrison, Masks of the Universe (New York: Collier, 1985), 263, 252.
12. Quoted in John Barrow and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 22.
13. Owen Gingerich, “Dare a Scientist Believe in Design?” in John M. Templeton, editor,