The Creator and the Cosmos Quotes

“EXTREME DESIGN Theologically, the space energy density demonstrates that for physical life to be possible at any time or place in the history of the universe the value of the mass density of the universe must be fine-tuned to within one part in 1060, and the value of the cosmological constant must be fine-tuned to within one part in 10120.{74} To put this in perspective, the best example of human engineering design that I am aware of is a gravity wave telescope capable of making measurements to within one part in 1023. This implies that the Creator at a minimum is ten trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times more intelligent, knowledgeable, creative, and powerful than we humans. To word it another way, before this discovery the most profound design evidence scientists had uncovered in the cosmos was a characteristic that had to be fine-tuned to within one part in 1040. Thanks to this twenty-first century discovery, the evidence that God created and designed the universe for the benefit of life and human beings in particular has become 1080 times stronger (a hundred million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times stronger).”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Appeals to imagined forces and phenomena have been the basis for all the cosmological models proposed to avoid the big bang implications about God. The disproof of these models and the ongoing appeal by nontheists to more and more bizarre unknowns and unknowables seem to reflect the growing strength of the case for theism.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“If the universe is created, then there must be reality beyond the universe...The Creator is the source of life and establishes its meaning and purpose....To study the origin and development of the universe is, in a sense, to investigate the basis for any meaning and purpose to life. Cosmology has deep theological and philosophical ramifications.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“With considerable security, therefore, we can draw the conclusion that even with a hundred billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the probability of finding, without divine intervention, a single planet capable of supporting physical life is much less than one in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion. The odds actually are higher that the reader will be killed by a sudden reversal in the second law of thermodynamics.{387} HABITABLE”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Even working within the laws of physics, researchers with an anti-God bias often make blind leaps of faith to escape any evidence of God’s involvement in the universe. For centuries Christians were criticized for their God-of-the-gaps arguments. Sometimes that criticism was deserved. Christians tended to use gaps in understanding or data to build a case for God’s miraculous intervention. Then, when scientific discoveries uncovered a natural explanation for the “divine phenomenon,” ridicule was heaped not only on those proposing the divine explanation but also on belief in God’s existence. In the twenty-first century we see the reverse of the God-of-the-gaps arguments. Nontheists, confronted with problems when ample research leads to no natural explanations and instead points to the supernatural, utterly reject the possibility of the supernatural and insist on a natural explanation even if it means resorting to absurdity. For example, steady state models were supported by an imagined force of physics for which there was not one shred of observational or experimental evidence. The oscillating universe model depended on an imagined bounce mechanism for which there was likewise not one shred of observational or experimental evidence. Similar appeals to imagined forces and phenomena have been the basis for all the cosmological models proposed to avoid the big bang implications about God (see chs. 8 and 9). The disproof of these models and the ongoing appeal by nontheists to more and more bizarre unknowns and unknowables seem to reflect the growing strength of the case for theism (see chs. 8, 9, 13, and 16).”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“In the elegant architecture of the universe, a galaxy, the sun, the planets, the earth, the moon, a human being, or even the simplest living thing, some people are struck by the wisdom, power, and care of the Creator, while others see an amazing coincidence or the work of some unidentified extraterrestrials. The book of Hebrews declares, “Anyone who comes to [God] must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”{428} In a sense, this verse sets forth a test of the heart. The person who wants to draw near to God must be (and will be) humble-hearted enough not only to see and accept His existence but also to see and trust His goodness, His love.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“The Trinity is a mathematical absurdity in the context of a god limited in his operations to just the four dimensions of length, width, height, and time. Then I share with them the evidence from general relativity, the big bang, and string theory for the existence of six more dimensions besides the four we humans experience.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Fully formed cells show up in the fossil record as far back as 3.5 billion years, and limestone, formed from the remains of organisms, dates back 3.8 billion years. The ratio of 12carbon to 13carbon found in ancient sediments{390} also indicates a plenitude of life on Earth for the era between 3.5 and 3.86 billion years ago.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“When it comes to the origin of life, many biologists (and others) have typically assumed that plenty of time is available for natural processes to perform the necessary assembly. But discoveries about the universe and the solar system have shattered that assumption. What we see now is that life must have originated on Earth quickly.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“for life molecules to operate so that organisms can live requires an environment where water vapor, liquid water, and frozen water are all stable and abundant. This means that a planet cannot be too close to its star or too far away.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“The sun’s unique location benefits us in yet another way. We get a clear view of the heavens. If we were in a spiral arm, 80 to 85% of the light from other galaxies would be absorbed by intervening dust.{357} If we were near the galactic bulge, in a globular cluster, or even in an open star cluster, the light of other stars would make the night sky too bright. If it were not for our unique location, we would not have had the capacity to discover that we dwell in a spiral galaxy, that over a hundred billion other galaxies exist, that the universe is continually expanding, that there is a cosmic background radiation, and that our universe is traceable back to an exquisitely designed, transcendent creation event. Situated where we are, however, we have what can be described as a window seat to the splendors of the universe.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“As physicist Robert Dicke observed thirty-two years ago, if you want physicists (or any other life forms), you must have carbon.{353} Boron and silicon are the only other elements on which complex molecules can be based, but boron is rare and, where concentrated, is poisonous to life, and silicon can hold together no more than about a hundred amino acids. Given the constraints of physics and chemistry, we can reasonably assume that physical life must be carbon-based.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“By 1966 Shklovskii and Sagan had determined it takes a certain kind of star with a planet located at just the right distance from that star to provide the minimal conditions for life.{344} Working with just these two parameters, they estimated that 0.001% of all stars could have a planet capable of supporting advanced life.{”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“One characteristic that stands out dramatically is His interest in and care for living things, particularly the human race. We see this care in the vastness and quality of the resources devoted to life support. For example, the baryon density (density of neutrons and protons) of the universe, as huge as it is, focuses on the needs of humans. How? The baryon density determines how efficiently nuclear fusion operates in the cosmos. The baryon density we measure translates into about a hundred-billion-trillion stars for the presently observable universe. As table 14.1 indicates, if the baryon density is too great, too much deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron in the nucleus) is made in the first few minutes of the universe’s existence. This extra deuterium will cause the stars to burn much too quickly and erratically for any of them to support a planet with life. On the other hand, if the baryon density is too small, so little deuterium and helium are made in the first few minutes that the heavier elements necessary for life will never form in stars. What this means is that the approximately hundred-billion-trillion stars we observe in the universe—no more and no less—are needed for life to be possible in the universe. God invested heavily in living creatures. He constructed all these stars and carefully crafted them throughout the age of the universe so that at this brief moment in the history of the cosmos humans could exist and have a pleasant place to live.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Allan Sandage, winner of the Crafoord prize in astronomy (equivalent to the Nobel prize), remarked, “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 instead of nothing.”{”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Stephen Hawking himself concedes: 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{321}”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Arno Penzias, who shared the Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the cosmic background radiation, remarked: 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.{316}”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“For many decades astronomers and others have wondered why, given God exists, He would wait so many billions of years to make life. Why did He not do it right away? The answer is that, given the laws and constants of physics God chose to create, it takes about ten to twelve billion years just to fuse enough heavy elements in the nuclear furnaces of several generations of giant stars to make life chemistry possible.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“1. Getting the Right Molecules For life to be possible, more than forty different elements must be able to bond together to form molecules.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“string theorists had demonstrated that a ten-dimensional creation calculation established the validity of all the physical laws back to the actual cosmic creation event.)”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Hebrews 11:3 states that the universe we can detect was made through that which we cannot possibly detect. This means that the universe was made transcendently, that it came from a source independent of matter, energy, length, width, height, and time.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Of all the holy books of the religions of the world, only the Bible unambiguously states that time is finite, that time has a beginning, that God created time, that God is capable of cause and effect operations before the time dimension of the universe existed, and that God did cause many effects before the time component of our universe existed. Some of the Bible verses making such statements are given in table 10.1.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“HUBBLE TIME AND YOUNG-UNIVERSE CREATIONISM Ironically, one of the attempted end runs around the Hubble time has been made by a vocal segment of the Christian community. Rather than seeing the Hubble time as a proof for a recent creation event and thus a strike against materialist philosophies, they see it as proof for an ancient cosmos with time enough for strictly natural evolutionary processes to work. Like many people of the nineteenth century, they seem so boggled by the billions of years that they liken such a time frame to infinite time. This group of creationists insists that a literal reading of the Bible demands a creation date for the cosmos of only some six to ten thousand years ago. They interpret the creation days of Genesis 1 as six consecutive twenty-four-hour periods.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Photo shows (from left) Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble at the Mount Wilson 100-inch telescope near Pasadena, California, where Hubble made his observations that demonstrated the galaxies are expanding away from one another.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“By the time the universe was one millisecond old it had settled down into a sea of protons and neutrons. The only element in existence at that time was simple hydrogen, described by a single proton. For about twenty seconds, when the universe was a little less than four minutes old, it reached the right temperature for nuclear fusion to occur. During that time, protons and neutrons fused together to form elements heavier than simple hydrogen.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“Such an accurate and detailed picture of cosmic creation holds powerful potential to promote a Christian worldview amid a secularist society, most importantly to encourage personal faith in Jesus Christ. It may also help in settling creation disputes within the Christian community.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“To word it another way, before this discovery the most profound design evidence scientists had uncovered in the cosmos was a characteristic that had to be fine-tuned to within one part in 1040. Thanks to this twenty-first century discovery, the evidence that God created and designed the universe for the benefit of life and human beings in particular has become 1080 times stronger (a hundred million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times stronger).”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“the best example of human engineering design that I am aware of is a gravity wave telescope capable of making measurements to within one part in 1023. This implies that the Creator at a minimum is ten trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times more intelligent, knowledgeable, creative, and powerful than we humans.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“fact, for life to be possible in the universe, that is, to obtain the stars and planets necessary for physical life, the value of the mass density must be fine-tuned to better than one part in 1060 and the value of the space energy density to better than one part in 10120. Again, in the words of Lawrence Krauss, this is “the most extreme fine-tuning problem known in physics.”{”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God

“These answers, in turn, magnify the accuracy of biblical cosmology and the necessity of the biblical Creator.”
― Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God