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Religion Helps Science T o Be Rightly Guided

physical equilibria in the universe are intricately designed to render life
possible. As research proceeded, it was discovered that each and every
one of the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology, of the fundamental
forces such as gravity and electromagnetism, and of the details of the
structure of atoms and the elements of the universe, has been precisely
tailored so that human beings may exist. Scientists refer to this
extraordinary design as the "Anthropic Principle". This is the principle
by which every detail in the universe has been carefully arranged to make
human life possible.
With these discoveries, the dictum formerly imposed on the scientific
community by the materialist philosophy, touting that "the universe is a
heap of matter with no meaning and purpose working according to
chance", was exposed to be an unscientific fallacy. Noted molecular
biologist Michael Denton makes the following comment in his book,
Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe:
The new picture that has emerged in twentieth-century astronomy
presents a dramatic challenge to the presumption which has been
prevalent within scientific circles during most of the past four
centuries: that life is a peripheral and purely contingent phenomenon

Only a highly intelligent person can
reconstruct the scattered pieces of
Albert Einstein's puzzle seen here. It
is therefore certain that systems far
more sophisticated and perfect than
this in the universe were designed by
God, Who has infinite knowledge and
wisdom.

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