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39. Paul Davies, The Mind of God, 220.
40. Clifford Longley, “Focusing on Theism.”
41. Brad Lemley, “Why Is There Life?” In a subsequent interview, Rees said it’s helpful for physicists to contemplate the possibility of other universes. He added: “I don’t believe, but I think it’s part of science to find out.” See Dennis Overbye, “A New View of Our Universe: Only One of Many,” New York Times (October 29, 2002).
42. Ibid.
43. According to The Bread Factory Book, produced by Sanyo: “Bread flour made from hard wheat is high in the protein substance called gluten. When mixed and kneaded, the gluten stretches and incorporates air bubbles to produce a light, fine textured loaf.” In making whole-wheat bread, up to four tablespoons of gluten needs to be added to increase the height of the loaves.
44. Michio Kaku, Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory (New York: Springer-Verlag, second edition, 1999), 17.
45. Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (New York: Harper and Row, 1979), 251.
46. Gregg Easterbrook, “The New Convergence,” Wired (December 2002) emphasis added.
47. See: “Chapter Six: Beautiful Theories,” in Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory (New York, Vintage Books, 1992).
48. Alan Guth, The Inflationary Universe (New York: Helix, 1997), 124.
49. Paul Dirac, “The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature,” Scientific American (May 1963).
50. Oliver Darrigol, From c-Numbers to q-Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992), 304.
51. Paul Davies, Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), 235–36.
52. Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory, 250.
53. Dennis Overbye, “A New View of Our Universe: Only One of Many.”
54. Owen Gingerich, “Dare a Scientist Believe in Design?” in John M. Templeton, editor, Evidence of Purpose (New York: Continuum, 1994), 32.
55. Vera Kistiakowsky, “The Exquisite Order of the Physical World Calls for the Divine,” in Henry Margenau and Roy Abraham Varghese, Cosmos, Bios, Theos (Chicago: Open Court, 1992), 52.
56. Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, 55, 26.
Chapter 7: The Evidence of Astronomy: The Privileged Planet
1. George Greenstein, The Symbiotic Universe (New York: William Morrow, 1988), 27.
2. Henry Margenau and Roy Abraham Varghese, editors, Cosmos, Bios, and Theos (LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1992), 83.
3. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (New York: Ballantine, 1994), 7.
4. See: Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth (New York: Copernicus, 2000), xxiv.
5. Ibid., xiv.
6. David Darling, Life Everywhere (New York: Basic Books, 2002).
7. Ibid., xii.
8. Ibid., xi.
9. Science 277 (1997), 892.
10. Bernard Oliver quoted in Steven J. Dick, Life on Other Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 217.
11. Michael J. Denton, Nature’s Destiny (New York: The Free Press, 1998), 387.
12. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth, xxiv.
13. Ibid., xiv.
14. Ibid., 33.
15. Ibid., xix.
16. Ibid., back cover.
17. Ibid.
18. The Times of London (January 26, 2002), quoted in: David Darling, Life Everywhere, 91.
19. Jimmy H. Davis and Harry L. Poe, Designer Universe (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2002), 107.
20. See: Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny (New York: The Free Press, 1998), 88–89.
21. Frank Press and Raymond Siever, Earth (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1986), 3.
22. Ibid., 4.
23. Ibid., 3.
24. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth, 37, 229.
25. Michael J. Denton, Nature’s Destiny, 3–4.
26. Quoted in Hans Blumenberg, The Genesis of the Copernican Revolution, translated by Robert M. Wallace (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987), xv.
27. Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius, quoted in Dennis Danielson, The Book of the Cosmos (Cambridge: Perseus, Helix, 2000), 150.
28. Philip J. Sampson, Six Modern Myths (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000), 33 (emphasis added).
29. William R. Shea, “Galileo and the Church” in: David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, editors, God and Nature (Berkeley: