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nely regulated in order to support human An article in the well-known magazi-
life. The deeper research has penetrated, ne Science refers to the wondrous equ-
the more it has shown that the laws of ilibrium at the beginning of the universe:
physics, chemistry and biology; basic If the density of the universe matter had
forces such as gravity and electromagne- been a little more, then the universe, ac-
tism, and the structures of all atoms and cording to Einstein's Theory of Relativity,
elements are just as they need to be to would never expand due to the attraction
support human life. forces of atomic particles, and would ha-
Western scientists today refer to this ve recollapsed to turn into a point. If the
extraordinary creation as the Anthropic density had initially been a little less,
Principle. In other words, every detail in then the universe would have expanded
at the highest speed, and the atomic par-
the universe has been created with the
ticles would not have been able to attract
goal of supporting human life.
and capture one another, and stars and
There are some 300 billion galaxies
galaxies would never have been formed.
in the universe, each containing approxi-
Naturally, we, too, would not have exis-
mately as many stars. Eight major pla-
ted! According to the calculations made,
nets circle in great harmony around our the difference between the initial real
Sun, which is one of those stars. Of the- density of the universe and the critical
se, only the Earth possesses conditions density beyond which there is no likeliho-
suited to life. Today, many scientists ad- od of its formation is less than a quadril-
mit the impossibility of the universe be- lion of a hundredth. This is like placing a
ing a collection of random clouds of pen on its sharp end that it can stay so
hydrogen matter forming the stars that even after one billion years. Moreover,
form galaxies, of matter thrown out ran- this balance gets more delicate as the
universe expands. 27
domly as the result of exploding stars, or
of heavier elements coming together at Adherents of the theory of evolution
specific points in such a way as to give try to account for this extraordinary order
rise to planets. In the face of this, Sir in the universe in terms of chance effects.
Fred Hoyle, who opposed the Big Bang Yet it is doubtless irrational and illogical
theory for many years, expressed the as- to expect interconnected coincidences to
tonishment he felt: give rise to such a complex order.
Since chance can be calculated mat-
The Big Bang theory holds that the uni-
hematically, we can see the impossibility
verse began with a single explosion. Yet
as can be seen, an explosion merely of such a thing happening. It has been
throws matter apart, while the big bang calculated that the probability of an en-
has mysteriously produced the opposite vironment suited to life emerging thro-
effect—with matter clumping together in ugh an explosion such as the Big Bang
the form of galaxies. 26 are 1 in 10 x 10 123 .

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)