HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD - PART FOUR

                                          HAS SCIENCE                  DISCOVERED GOD?

       PART FOUR

     (copied from
       Y-Jesus.com)

this post was inadvertently not posted yesterday, part five took its place.

Finely -Tuned For Life.

Physicists calculated that for life to exist, gravity and other forces of nature needed to  be just right  or our universe could not exist. Had the expansion rate been slightly weaker, gravity would have pulled all matter back into a "big crunch."

We are not talking about a mere one or two per cent reduction, in the universe's expansion rate.

Stephen Hawking writes:

 "If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand, million, million, the universe would have re-collapsed before it ever reached its present size." 

On the flip side, if the expansion rate had been a mere fraction greater than it was, galaxies, star and planets could never have formed, and we wouldn't be here.

And for life to exist, the conditions in our solar system and planet also need to be just right. For example, we realize that without an atmosphere of oxygen, none of us would be able to breathe. And without oxygen, water couldn't exist. 

Without water, there would be no rainfall for our crops. Other elements such as, hydrogen, nitrogen, sodium, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus are also essential for life.

But, that alone is not all that is needed for life to exist. The size, temperature, relative proximity, and chemical make-up of our planet, sun and moon also need to be just right. And there are dozens of other conditions that needed to be exquisitely fine-tuned, or we wouldn't be here, to think about it.

Scientists who believe in God may have expected such fine-tuning but atheists and agnostics were unable to explain the remarkable "coincidences."


Theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, an agnostic, writes: "The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."



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