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Nature Reveals God’s Wisdom

Of course there is a massive intelligence behind the universe. A man is a fool who doesn’t believe that.
Albert Einstein

The sense of wonder leads most scientist to a Superior Being—der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity—A superior intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
Abdus Salam—Nobel Prize in Physics

As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth of which is emphasized by every advance in science, that “Great are the Works of the Lord”.
Sir Joseph Thompson—Nobel Prize Physics; Founder of Atomic Physics

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.
Joseph H. Taylor—Nobel Prize Physics 1993

I believe in God more because of science than in spite of it.
William Phillips—Nobel Prize in Physics

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
Lord Kelvin—Formulated the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics

Wisdom enables us to understand reality. Through wisdom we have discovered a set of scientific laws that elegantly express reality in the language of mathematics. Whenever man learns the logic of the universe, man is (in essence) “thinking God’s thoughts after Him.” A correct understanding, therefore, is that we humans discover and implement wisdom, we do not invent it.
Institute for Creation Research—Nature Reveals God’s Wisdom

According to everything taught by the exact sciences about the immense realm of nature, a certain order prevails—one independent of the human mind…this order can be formulated in terms of purposeful activity. There is evidence of an intelligent order of the universe to which man and nature are subservient.
Max Planck—Father of Quantum Physics

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
Werner Heisenberg—Founder of Quantum Mechanics

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.
Albert Einstein

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds the most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck—Father of Quantum Mechanics & Noble Prize Winner

The knowledge of God is revealed through nature is not hidden. It is not obscure. It is not ambiguous. It is so clear and manifest that every human being on this planet knows that God exists. The problem is not that people lack knowledge of God, But that they suppress it. They push it down. They don’t want it. The issue is not intellectual, it is moral.
R.C. Sproul—The Consequence of Ideas

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak, as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
Robert Jastrow—PhD Theoretical Physics, Astronomer, Planetary Physicist

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the Laws of Physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.
FrankTipler—Mathematical Physicist

I love to think of Nature as an unlimiting broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour, and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
Sir Isaac Newton

The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, and the Bible as a whole.
Arno Penzias — Physicist, Nobel Prize 1978, co-discoverer of cosmic microwave background radiation

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 — Theoretical physicist, cosmologist,

Both religion and science need for their activities the belief in God. For science, God stands for the ground of the rational order of the universe. (Religion and Natural Science)
Max Planck — Nobel Prize in Physics (1918), founder of quantum theory

To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is, to me, impossible.
John Glenn—Radio Message from aboard the Shuttle Discovery 1988

My greatest discovery was that I needed God.
Alexander Fleming—Nobel Prize Bacteriologist who discovered antibiotic Penicillin

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist must be rather silly. Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than He must be assumed. When He stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn’t make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.
Max Born—Nobel Prize in Physics helped develop Quantum Mechanics

The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, “So, that’s how God did it. My goal is to understand a little corner of God’s plan.
Henry Schaefer—Five time Nobel Prize Nominee in Chemistry

Universe Began to Exist and Must Have a Supernatural Cause

I was almost a practicing atheist as a child… But I could not live with the nonsense that everything sprang into being by chance. God is the explanation for the miracle of existence.
Allan Sandage — Astronomer, Hubble’s successor at Palomar Observatory

The Big Bang cries out for a divine explanation. It forces us to the conclusion that nature had a definite beginning. I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force can.
Francis Collins — Geneticist, Director of the Human Genome Project, former head of the NIH

Did the Universe have a beginning? At this point, it seems the answer to this question is probably yes. Here we have addressed the three scenarios which seemed to offer a way to avoid a beginning, and have found that none of them can be eternal in the past.
Alexander Vilenkin—Professor of Physics and Director of Institute of Cosmology

If science has shown that God does not exists, it has not been by appealing to Big Bang Cosmology. The hypothesis of God’s existence and the facts of contemporary cosmology are consistent.
David Berlinski—American Author and Philosopher; Princeton and Columbia Universities

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. (A Brief History of Time, 1988)
Stephen Hawking—Theoretical physicist, University of Cambridge

I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence — why there is something rather than nothing.
llan Sandage — Astronomer, Hubble’s successor at Palomar Observatory

The more we learn about creation, the more I am impressed by the thought that this universe was not created by chance. Testimony before U.S. Congress, 1962)
Werner von Braun — Rocket engineer, “father of space science” (Apollo program leader)

Science cannot claim to have refuted the existence of God. Questions about why there is a universe, why it is ordered, and why there are conscious beings are outside science’s reach.
Karl Popper — Philosopher of science, London School of Economics

Complex Information Contained in Nature Points To God

A commons sense interpretation of the facts suggest that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics.
Sir Fred Hoyle—Astrophysicist and Mathematician

Biological information is not encoded in the chemical makeup of DNA alone, but in the sequence, which is like software. Matter by itself cannot generate such software. (The Origin of Life, 2003)
Paul Davies — Theoretical physicist, cosmologist,

There is no known law of nature, no known process, and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.
Werner Gitt—Director & Professor, German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology

Life is a process which can be carried out only in the presence of a highly complex information system. Such information is not a property of matter, but must be supplied.
John von Neumann — Hungarian-American mathematician, father of modern computing

The origin of life by chance in a primeval soup is impossible in probability in the same way that a perpetual motion machine is in probability. Information, like energy, is not generated spontaneously.
Hubert Yockey — Physicist, information theorist, worked with Manhattan Project

The information content of a DNA molecule cannot be explained by chemical or physical laws. The arrangement of bases embodies a set of constraints that are extraneous to the forces at work.
Michael Polanyi — Physical chemist turned philosopher of science

Life is not just about chemistry, it is about information. The problem of the origin of life reduces to one of understanding how biological information came into existence.
Paul Davies — Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, (The Fifth Miracle)

Information habitually arises from conscious activity. The creation of new information is habitually associated with creative acts of minds. (The Emergence of Biological Organization)
Henry Quastler — Austrian-American radiologist, pioneer of information theory in biology

The deepest level of reality is not matter, but form and information.
Werner Heisenberg — German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, founder of quantum mechanics

Evolutionary biologists have failed to realize that they work with two separate domains: that of information and that of matter… These two domains will never be brought together in any reductionist explanation of biology. (Complexity, Information and Natural Selection, 1992)
George Williams — Evolutionary biologist

The problem of the origin of life is clearly basically equivalent to the problem of the origin of biological information.
Manfred Eigen — German biophysical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The complexity of the simplest known cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been assembled by random chance and natural processes.
Michael Denton — Biochemist, geneticist, author, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute

As we look out into the universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together for our benefit, it almost seems as if the universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.
Freeman Dyson — Theoretical physicist, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
James Jean—physicist, astronomer, and mathematician

Chemistry is not random. The elegance and structure reflect an underlying rationality.
Henry F. Schaefer III—PhD Chemical Physics Stanford University

The Design and Fine Tuning of The Universe Points To God

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible; namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.
William Dembski—Mathematician and Philosopher

The more we learn about Earth, the more we realize how uniquely tuned it is for life.
Guillermo Gonzalez—Astrophysicist and astronomy professor; specializes in stellar spectroscopy, galactic habitability, and exoplanet research

The laws of nature form a system that is extremely fine-tuned and elegant, suggesting design.
Paul Davies—Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, (The Fifth Miracle)

Quantum theory requires us to abandon the distinction between observer and observed. This may suggest deeper realities.
John Wheeler—Theoretical physicist; Specialized in nuclear physics, relativity, and quantum mechanics

Earth appears to be uniquely suited for life, despite billions of planetary candidates.
John D. Barrow—B.A. and Ph.D. in Physics, University of Oxford; Doctoral advisor: Dennis Sciama (also mentor to Stephen Hawking)

The Laws of Gravity, the Laws of Thermodynamics, the Laws of Motion, and all other basic laws have apparently always functioned just the way they do now contrary to the basic evolution model.
Henry Morris—PhD Hydraulic Engineering, B.S. Civil Engineering, Founder, Institute for Creation Research

Science does not compel us to atheism. The universe is rationally transparent and rationally beautiful. That points beyond itself to a divine mind. (Belief in God in an Age of Science, 1998)
John Polkinghorne—Theoretical physicist, Professor at Cambridge, later Anglican priest

What we find in modern cosmology is that the universe is balanced on a knife-edge, with a whole series of remarkable coincidences necessary for our existence.
John D. Barrow — Cosmologist, Professor at Cambridge, Templeton Prize winner

Human Conscience and Universal Morality Points To God

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
C.S. Lewis—Mere Christianity

Throughout the wide world of creation God has left us all sorts of signs that point right back at Him. Often these clues tell us more than that a divine being exists; often they tell us what kind of divine being exists. Some of these clues lie right before our nose in the world around us, whereas others lie deep inside of us at the level of immediate subjective experience. Among these interior signs is the conscience, which points not merely toward the existence of God but the existence of a personal God.
Matthew Nelson—Philosopher

I have no doubt that our moral code(s) provide survival advantage over many of the alternatives. But this biological benefit does not in itself imply that our ethics developed naturalistically. It may be, for example, that a divine lawgiver hardwired us with knowledge of moral laws, and one of the benefits of following them is that things will generally go better for us, as well as others.
Mitch Stokes—Philosopher

Okay. How about this? If Darwinism is true, why should I be good tomorrow? Now, there’s no answer to that. The presumption is…”Oh, because this helps us survive as a group.” But there’s a presumption there that helping us survive as a group is a good thing in itself. What makes it good in itself? The long and short of it is, if Darwinism explains our view of morality, then we have nothing more than relativism because biology cannot make anything bad in itself.
Greg Koukl—Is Our Morality A Product of Evolution

In order to say that an action is good or evil, one needs an objective and universal moral standard that transcends individual people and individual societies. It must also be personal in nature. Moral standards deal with right and wrong, what should and should not be done. This implies a choice that requires personality and consciousness. A transcendent moral standard would therefore need to be grounded in a conscious, personal, and transcendent reality. Christians find this in God—the only place where such a standard can be found.
Henry Middleton—Can Morality Be Based in Our Evolutionary Past?

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe… the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant—Critique of Practical Reason

Could there really be any such thing as genuine moral obligation if naturalism were true? I don’t see how. … If you think there really is such a thing as right and wrong … then you have a powerful argument for theism
Alvin Plantiga—Phd in Philosophy Notre Dame

On the naturalistic hypothesis, moral values are merely by-products of evolution, having no more validity than the preference of bees for a hexagonal cell. Yet we cannot rid ourselves of the conviction that morality has objective validity.
Arthur Balfour – former UK Prime Minister and philosopher

Conscience has rights because it has duties… it is a messenger of Him, who, both in nature and in grace, speaks to us behind a veil.
John Henry Newman—Elevated to College of Cardinals by Pope Leo Xiii

Why would such a universal and uniquely human hunger [for moral law] exist, if it were not pointing to something beyond ourselves? Evolution alone does not explain it.
Francis Collins—Geneticist; The Language of God

We are creatures with a sense of justice. But whence comes this sense? Surely not from the struggle for survival only.
J.R.R. Tokien

Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too—for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it didn’t happen to please my private fancies. … Consequently, atheism turns out to be too simple.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
C.S. Lewis—Mere Christianity

Longing For Meaning and Eternity Points To God

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.
Nikola Tesla

The immortality of the soul is a postulate of practical reason: without it, the moral law within us would lack ultimate meaning.
Immanuel Kant — German philosopher, Professor at University of Königsberg

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy. The most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable, and our longing for truth and goodness is a longing for the eternal.
Plato

All men by nature desire to know. … The human good is found in the contemplation of the divine.
Aristotle

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator.
Blaise Pascal — French mathematician, physicist, philosopher,

Our longing for meaning, our sense of right and wrong, our recognition that the universe is not enough for us — these are not illusions, but signposts to God.
Alvin Plantinga — American analytic philosopher, Yale Ph.D., Professor at Notre Dame & Calvin College

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoevsky — Russian novelist, essayist, Christian thinker

Man cannot live without meaning. If he cannot find meaning in life, he will find it in death.
Leo Tolstoy— Russian novelist, moral philosopher, Christian reformer

Man cannot be satisfied except by what is infinite, as his desire is for the universal good. Therefore only God can satisfy man’s desire.
Thomas Aquinas — Catholic theologian, philosopher, Doctor of the Church

The thirst for the infinite proves our connection with the infinite
Rabindranath Tagore — Indian poet, philosopher, Nobel Laureate in Literature

There is a God-shaped void in the soul which nothing can fill, not even the whole universe, but only God.
Simone Weil — French philosopher,

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, Because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C.S. Lewis

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.
Leonardo da Vinci