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Stars Humble Roosevelt

I heard that popular U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt would often take important diplomatic guests out to the back lawn of the White House at the day's end. He'd begin to stare at the sky until all gazed at the vast array of stars. After a long silence, Roosevelt would say, "Gentlemen, I believe we are small enough now. Let's go to bed." What do you do to keep your perspective on your smallness compared to God's greatness? (Source: E-mail from the Presidential Prayer Team, 6-21-02)

Einstein on How God Created the World

"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." - Albert Einstein

Bill Gates on the Human Mind

Creation, Evidence "?the amazement and wonder I have about the human mind is closer to religious awe than dispassionate analysis." (Bill Gates on Larry King Live, CNN, August 21, 1995)

Scientist Schaefer on Big Bang as Consistent With Genesis

Scientist Schaefer on Big Bang as Consistent With Genesis Creation, Evidence "A Creator must exist. The big bang ripples (April 1992) and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis. " (Dr. Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, III at http://www.leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/bigbang.html ;Cited from "Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and God"

Hawking on Design

Hawking on Design Creation, Evidence In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense. ? Stephen Hawking(Cited from "Scientists and Their Gods", by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer, III at http://leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/scientists.html ) 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. ? Fred Hoyle (Cited from "Scientists and Their Gods", by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer, III at http://leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/scientists.html )

Stephen Hawking on God

Stephen Hawking on God Creation, Evidences Stephen Hawking is probably the most popular living scientist. In his book, A Brief History of Time, he said, "It is difficult to discuss the beginning of the universe without mentioning the concept of God. My work on the origin of the universe is on the borderline between science and religion, but I try to stay on the scientific side of the border. It is quite possible that God acts in ways that cannot be described by scientific laws." When asked by a reporter whether he believed that science and Christianity were competing world views, Hawking replied cleverly "Then Newton would not have discovered the law of gravity." Dr. Hawking is well aware that Newton had strong religious convictions. A Brief History of Time makes wonderfully ambiguous statements such as, "Even if there is only one possible unified theory (here he is alluding to the envisioned unification of our understandings of quantum mechanics and gravity), it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" In a similar vein Hawking asks "Why does the universe go to the bother of existing?" (Cited from "Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and God" (Dr. Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, III at http://www.leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/bigbang.html )

Science Writer on "the impression of design"

Science Writer on "the impression of design" Evidence, Creation Science writer extraordinaire Paul Davies adds "There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming." (Cited from "Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and God" by Dr. Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, III at http://www.leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/bigbang.html