Fred Hoyle (British astrophysicist): ''A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.'' (2)
George Ellis (British astrophysicist): ''Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.'' (3)
Paul Davies (British astrophysicist): ''There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all....It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature鈥檚 numbers to make the Universe....The impression of design is overwhelming''. (4)
Paul Davies: ''The laws [of physics] ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose''. (5)
Alan Sandage (winner of the Crawford prize in astronomy): ''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.'' (6)
John O'Keefe (astronomer at NASA): ''We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures.. .. If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.'' (7)
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