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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 35

In this chapter we will examine and consider this extraordinary perfec-
tion and excellence.

The Speed of the Explosion
People hearing of the Big Bang but not considering the subject at length
do not think about what an extraordinary plan must lie behind this explo-
sion. That's because the notion of an explosion doesn't suggest harmony,
plan, or organization to most people. In fact there are a number of very
puzzling aspects to the intricate order in the Big Bang.
One of these puzzles has to do with the acceleration caused by the ex-
plosion. When the explosion took place, matter certainly must have begun
moving at an enormous speed in every direction. But there is another point
that we need to pay attention to here. There must also have been a very
big attractive force at the first moment of the explosion: an attractive force
that was strong enough to gather the whole universe into one point.
Two different and opposing forces are at work here. The force of the
explosion, driving matter outward and away, and the force of attraction,
trying to resist the first and pull everything back together. The universe
came into being because these two forces were in equilibrium. If the at-
tractive force had been greater than the explosive, the universe would have
collapsed. If the opposite had been true, matter would have been splat-
tered in every direction in a way never to unite again.
Then how sensitive was this equilibrium? How much "slack" could there
have been between the two forces?
The mathematical physicist Paul Davies, a professor at the University of
Adelaide in Australia, performed lengthy calculations of the conditions that
must have existed at the moment of the Big Bang and came up with a re-
sult that can only be described as astonishing. According to Davies, if the
rate of expansion had differed by more than 10 -18 seconds (one quin-
tillionth of a second), there would have been no universe. Davies de-
scribes his conclusion:
Careful measurements puts the rate of expansion very close to a criti-