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JANUARY
Van Gogh in Space?
“There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all ... it seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe ... The impression of design is overwhelming."
-- Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint, p. 203
FEBRUARY
Barred Spiral Galaxy
“The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.”
-- Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe, p. 250
MARCH
The Lure of the Rings
“The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation ... His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
-- Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, p. 40
APRIL
Hubble Deep Field Galaxies
“The most profound theological and philosophical statements being made these days are in the photographs taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. And the most jarring picture is the Hubble Deep Field."
-- Robert Fulghum, Words I Wish I Wrote
MAY
Colliding Galaxies
“We do, of course, have an alternative. We could say that there was no creation, and that the universe has always been here. But this is even more difficult to accept than creation.”
-- Barry Parker, Creation—the Story of the Origin and Evolution of the Universe, pp. 201-202
JUNE
Young Stars
“How is it that common elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen happened to have just the kind of atomic structure that they needed to combine to make the molecules upon which life depends? It is almost as though the universe had been consciously designed…”
-- Richard Morris, The Fate of the Universe, p. 28
JULY
Helix Nebula
“The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.”
-- George Smoot and Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time, p.135
AUGUST
Tadpole Galaxy
“Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God—the design argument of Paley—updated and refurbished. The fine-turning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice; blind chance that requires multitude of universe or design that requires only one….Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.
-- Edward Harrison, Masks of the Universe, pgs 252, 263
SEPTEMBER
Cone Nebula
“Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say ‘supernatural’) plan.”
-- Arno Penzias, Cosmos, Bios, and Theos, p. 83
OCTOBER
Crab Nebula
“It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.”
-- Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p. 127
NOVEMBER
Cosmic Dust Bunnies
“To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally different order of reality or being, not restrained within the bounds of the Universe itself.”
-- George F. R. Ellis, Before the Beginning – Cosmology Explained, p. 97
DECEMBER
Eagle Nebula
“Alternatively, suppose we were to accept the mythical genesis of the world from night or the natural philosophers' claim that 'all things were originally together.' We are still left with the same impossible consequence. How is everything to be set in motion, unless there is actually to be some cause of movement? Matter is not going to set itself in motion - its movement depends on a motive cause."
-- Aristotle, 340 BC
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