52004.2 Endnotes Is the Universe a Product of Design or Chance?

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Is the Universe a Product of Design or Chance?

  1. Dietrick E. Thompsen, “The Quantum Universe: A Zero-Point Fluctuation?” Science News, August 3 
  2. Hugh Ross, Reasons.org, “Probability for Life on Earth,” April 1, 2004. 
  3. Roger Penrose, (1989). The emperor’s new mind: Concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics. (Oxford University Press). 
  4. Paul Davies, Other Worlds (London: Penguin, 1990), 169. 
  5. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 190. 
  6. John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe (New York: Avon, 1989), 109. 
  7. Martin Rees, Our Cosmic Habitat (London: Phoenix, 2003), 164. 
  8. Charles Seife, Alpha and Omega (New York: Viking Penguin, 2003), 222. 
  9. Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage, 2000), 368. 
  10. Paul Davies, Other Worlds (London: Penguin, 1990), 14. 
  11. Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 174. 
  12. Gregg Easterbrook, “The New Convergence,” Wired, December 2002, Issue 10.12. 
  13. Seife, Ibid. 
  14. Carr, B. J. and Rees, M. J. (1979). ”The anthropic principle and the structure of the physical world”. Nature, 278 (5705), pp. 605-612.  
  15. Quoted in Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 158. 
  16. Hawking, 131. 
  17. Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions—The World as I See It (New York: Bonanza, 1931), 40. 
  18. Edward Harrison, Masks of the Universe (New York: Collier, 1985), 252, 263. 
  19. Arno Penzias, quoted by Walter Bradley in “The Designed ‘Just-so’ Universe”, 1999.