The Conservative Rebellion

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.--GEN 1:1

Nature, bright effluence of the One Supreme! / O how connected is thy
wondrous frame! --Henry Brook (1706-1783), Universal Beauty, Book II
lines 261and 262

Now that we know that every key relationship in the universe is based on six numbers...and that there would be no life and no universe as we know it if any one of these six numbers was changed in the slightest degree....--Russell Wilcox (From Sea to Shining Sea blog)

These six numbers* constitute a 'recipe' for a universe.--Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers

* N--the strength of the electrical forces that hold atoms together, divided by the force of gravity between them, ε--how firmly atomic nuclei bind together, Ω--measures the amount of material in the universe, λ--cosmic antigravity, Q--the ratio of the energy needed to disperse large structures in the cosmos to their total rest mass, D--the number of spatial dimensions in our world

"God said let Newton be! and all was light."1
You wrote the laws of gravity, also
The Calculus. You aimed the very bright
Light through a prism and found God's rainbow.

Einstein derived the energy and mass
Equation from the Michelson and Morley
Experiment, then came the dark morass,
The Unified Field Theory, which went poorly.

Planck's constant bears your name because you knew
Things "were not made of that which do appear."2
You founded Quantum Theory proven true,
But Einstein said things aren't both there and here?3

So we see where the scientists have trod
Discovering the creation of God. Q.E.D.

EPILOGUE

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? ...
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy? --JOB 38:4 & 7

1 "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said Let Newton be! and all was light."
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet.
Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey (1730).

2 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed
by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear. --HEB 11:3

3 Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me
that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really
bring us any closer to the secret of the 'old one'. I, at any rate, am
convinced that He does not throw dice. --Albert Einstein

This quote is commonly paraphrased "God does not play dice" or
"God does not play dice with the universe", and other slight variants.