P114 Freeman Dyson "The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming." "Disturbing the Universe", Harper & Row, 1979 P113 Uses the parable of a hotel room on a vacation that mysteriously knows all about you and your needs and preferences - you would conclude that they had been tipped off. P108 John Barrow in his Templeton addressĬhapter 6 Did the Universe Know We Were Coming? P107 Paul Davies in his Templeton address P103 Planck, Heisenberg, Shrodinger and Dirac, and even Darwin made statements pointing to God P97 Quote of Hawking "mind of God" quote. P96 Laws of nature and fact that they are "tied together" is, as Einstein spoke of them "reason incarnate". He points particularly to the origin of the laws of nature and the origin of life and reproduction. P95 Discusses the fact that he was formerly critical of arguments to design from order, but has come to the point that when correctly formulated, they are a persuasive case for the existence of God. P92 Quotes David Conway, "The Recovery of Wisdom: From Here to Antiquity in Quest of Sophia" " "How did the laws of nature come to be? The second is evident to all: How did life as a phenomenon originate from nonlife? An the third is the problem that philosophers handed over to cosmologists: How did the universe, by which we mean all that is physical, come into existence?" P91 "Three domains of scientific inquiry. P91 "The leaders of science over the last hundred years, along with some of today's most influential scientists, have built a philosophically compelling vision of a rational universe that sprang from a divine Mind." P89 "my paradigm remains, as Plato in his Republic scripted his Socrates to insist" 'We must follow the argument wherever it leads.'" The third is the very existence of nature.
The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. P88 "Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. P88 Laying the Cards on the Table Describing his path to a belief that "the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence."
P86 How we "let preconceived theories shape the way we view evidence instead of letting the evidence shape our theories." As examples "We should not ask for an explanation of how it is that the world exists it is there and that's all.", "Since we cannot accept a transcendent source of life, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance from matter." "The laws of physics are 'lawless laws' that arise from the void - end of discussion."
P85 Satellite phone on remote island parable.
There Is a God, Antony Flew and Roy Abraham Varghese There Is a God How the world's most notorious atheist changed his mind.
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