Stephen Hawking] "…has Calculated That If The ...

[Stephen Hawking] “…has calculated that if the rate of the universe’s expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have collapsed into a fireball.”

• British physicist P.C.W. Davies has concluded the odds against the initial conditions being suitable for the formation of stars – a necessity for planets and thus life – is a one followed by a least a thousand billion zeroes.

• Davies also estimated that if the strength of gravity or of the weak force were changed by only one part in a ten followed by a hundred zeroes, life could never have developed.

• There are about fifty constants and quantities – for example, the amount of useable energy in the universe, the difference in mass between protons and neutrons, the ratios of the fundamental forces of nature, and the proportion of matter to antimatter – that must be balanced to a mathematically infinitesimal degree for any life to be possible.

Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Pub. House, 2000), 77-78