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The laws [of physics]... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious
design... The universe must have a purpose. 454
It is hard to resist that the present structure of the universe, apparently so
sensitive to minor alterations in the numbers, has been rather carefully
thought out.... The seemingly miraculous concurrence of numerical val-
ues that nature has assigned to her fundamental constants must remain
the most compelling evidence for an element of cosmic design. 455
Had nature opted for a slightly different set of numbers, the world would
be a very different place. Probably we would not be here to see it... Recent
discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the ex-
panding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of as-
tonishing precision. 456
If the world's finest minds can unravel only with difficulty the deeper
workings of nature, how could it be supposed that those workings are
merely a mindless accident, a product of blind chance? 457
Prof. Fred Hoyle:
If you wanted to produce carbon and oxygen in roughly equal quantities
by stellar nucleosynthesis, these are the two basic levels you would have
to fix, and your fixing would have to be just about where these levels are
actually found to be... A commonsense interpretation of the facts sug-
gests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics... and that there
are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. 458
I do not believe that any scientist who examined the evidence would
fail to draw the inference that the laws of nuclear physics have been de-
liberately designed with regard to the consequences they produce in-
side the stars. 459

Hoimar Von Ditfurth is a German professor of neurology and psy-
chiatry and a well-known evolutionist science writer:
If dozens of mutual relationships and just about countless natural phe-
nomena, of which we have only become aware as the result of centuries
of experiments and a great deal of hard work by scientists, are not sources
of amazement and astonishment, genuine awe, then what will be? There
is an endless list of astonishing natural phenomena that we have only
learned as the result of scientific research, from the dimensions of the uni-
verse and the laws governing the rate of expansion of stars to the secret-
filled relationship between matter and energy, and from the events taking