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vel—is a loud, clear, piercing cry of “de-
sign!” The result is so unambiguous and
so significant that it must be ranked as
one of the greatest achievements in the
history of science. This triumph of scien-
ce should evoke cries of “Eureka” from
ten thousand throats. . . . Instead, a cu-
rious, embarrassed silence surrounds
the stark complexity of the cell. Why do-
es the scientific community not greedily
embrace its startling discovery? 52
He goes on to define the dilemma:
To acknowledge an intelligent design
implies acknowledging God’s existen-
ce. In these words, Behe declares that
the perfect design in living things reve-
als the existence of God.

Big Bang Theory, the

th
Given the primitive level of 19 -
century science, materialists of the time
strongly defended the idea that the uni-
verse had been in existence forever—in
other words, that it was not created; that
there was no design, plan or purpose in
the universe and that everything in it
was the result of chance. Eventually,
however, these claims collapsed in the
face of scientific discoveries made in
the 20 th century.
The fact of the expanding universe,
revealed in 1929 by the American astro-
nomer Edwin Hubble, gave birth to a
new model of the universe. Since the
universe was expanding, then the further
back in time one went, the smaller the