{"id":47685,"date":"2015-01-02T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_eric_metaxas-science_increasingly_makes_the_case_for_god\/"},"modified":"2015-01-02T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T18:00:47","slug":"wsj_eric_metaxas-science_increasingly_makes_the_case_for_god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47685","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Eric Metaxas&#8211;Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term \u201cbig bang,\u201d\u009d said that his atheism was \u201cgreatly shaken\u201d\u009d at these developments. He later wrote that \u201ca common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology . . . . The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicist Paul Davies has said that \u201cthe appearance of design is overwhelming\u201d\u009d and Oxford professor Dr. John Lennox has said \u201cthe more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator . . . gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something\u201d\u201dor Someone\u201d\u201dbeyond itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term \u201cbig bang,\u201d\u009d said that his atheism was \u201cgreatly shaken\u201d\u009d at these developments. He later wrote that \u201ca common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47685\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,174,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-apologetics","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}