Message #39105

[mccoy]

Steve, I just enjoy going into the details of some topics. I enjoy the understanding. Maybe I was a clergyman in the past, one of the very few categories which had access to books and knowledge!

I've always been curious about cosmology, astronomy, and particle physics in general and now, with the abundance of material available on the internet, I'm taking advantage of it. I am surprised by the high quality of some podcasts we can listen to simply by research on youtube. Eminent scientists, some of them Nobel prize winners, like Roger Penrose and Kip Thorne, explain often in very accessible words the topics they have been studying for decades. Such topics they have been able to draw from God's vast spheres of thought, the ideas present in the causal realm which constitute the blueprint of the material world. Roger Penrose himself keeps saying that such ideas, the mathematics included, are just discovered and not invented by man.

So, what is fascinating about these topics is that they underline the architecture of Creation itself.

In the end of it, in my considerate opinion, it seems impossible to deny that there is an intelligent design in the universe. Too many incredible details and fine-tuning either at the huge scale of the cosmos and at the hugely small scale of subatomic particles. Enormously complex systems in biology, like molecular machines, simply cannot have developed by chance. To think so is an insult to human intelligence. Even though many scientists just declare that it is stupid to think that a Creator may exist. Interestingly enough, they think we are stupid that we believe in a Creator and we may think that they are fools that they believe in pure chance.