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Section 2/7: Intro: Does God Exist?

Fine Tuning

Creation God Science The Universe

Physicist, mathematician, and philosopher of science Sir Roger Penrose is an Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He's received several awards, including the Wolf Prize for physics (which he shared with Stephen Hawking). He discusses just one of the fifty different anthropic coincidences, the big bang expansion phase-volume, which refers to the original conditions which made the universe possible:

 

"The Creator's aim must have been [precise] to an accuracy of 1 part in 10  to the 23rd power. This is an extraordinary figure. One could not possibly write the number down in full in the ordinary denary notation: it would be 1 followed by 10123 successive "0"s! Even if we were to write a "0" on each separate proton and on each separate neutron in the entire universe-and we could throw in all the other particles as well for good measure, we should fall far short of writing down the figure needed."