From Science to the Realization of God

In 1992, when Smoot announced the discovery of ripples in the heat radiation still arriving from the ‘Big Bang,’ he said it was “like seeing the face of God.” (God For the 21st Century, Templeton Press, May 2000, p. 153) As these observations were ‘evidence for the birth of the universe’, Smoot remarked that it was “like seeing the face of God.” Fine-Tuning in the Universe The scientific study tells us that the different components of the universe are exceedingly closely interrelated and are characterized by a great degree of fine-tuning. Therefore, there must be some explanation for these mind-boggling phenomena. The following excerpts are taken from a review of the book by physicist Alan Lightman for The Washington Post on April 11, 2014, on this topic. Fine-Tuning in the Universe “There is plenty of good scientific evidence that our universe began about 14 billion years ago, in a Big Bang of enormously high density and temperature, long before planets, stars and even atoms existed. But what came before [The physicist Lawrence] Krauss, in his book, discusses the current thinking of physicists that our entire universe could have emerged from a jitter in the amorphous haze of the subatomic world called the quantum foam, in which energy and matter can materialize out of nothing. Krauss’s punch line is that we do not need God to create the universe. The quantum foam can do it quite nicely all on its own. Aczel asks the obvious question: But where did the quantum foam come from? Where did the quantum