I missed out on the early part of the debate in the Times columns which essentially dealt with the question, “does God of the Bible exist?”
I may have missed it but I saw no mention of the Big Bang creation option held by so many leading scientists from such a wide range of disciplines, as is the case today.
To debate this question without making oneself familiar with at least the basics of such a belief held by so many highly-intelligent scientists seems premature as more and more of them believe that so much evidence shows that this creation event really did take place billions of years ago.
Their studies convince them that this creation of the universe was the design and action of a super intelligence worthy of the title God.
On April 24, 1992, the Cosmic Background Explorer group published their scientifically stupendous findings which prompted such as the late Stephen Hawking’s “It is the discovery the of the century, if not all time”; Carlos Frenk’s “The most exciting thing that’s happened in my life as a cosmologist”; Michael Turner’s “they have found the holy grail of cosmology” and Greg Smoot’s “We have found evidence for the birth of the universe – it’s like looking at God.”
According to science historian Frederic B Burnham “The community of scientists was prepared to consider the idea that God created the universe, a more respectful hypothesis today than at any time in the last hundred years”.
While astronomer and astrophysicist Dr Hugh Ross is author of ‘The Fingerprint of God’, “The Genesis Question” and “Beyond the Cosmos” and much more, the information for this letter is taken from his book ‘The Creator and the Cosmos’.
