“For the universe to exist as it does requires that Hydrogen be converted to Helium in a precise but comparatively stately manner – specifically, in a way that converts seven one-thousandths of its mass to energy. Lower that value very slightly – from 0.007 per cent to 0.006 per cent, say – and no transformation could take place: the universe would consist of hydrogen and nothing else. Raise the value very slightly – to 0.008 per cent – and bonding would be so wildly prolific that the hydrogen would long since have been exhausted. In either case, with the slightest tweaking of the numbers the universe as we know and need it would not be here.” (Lee Strobel, The Case For a Creator page 145)

Lee Strobel’s quotation from A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson would seem to suggest that the universe did not ‘just happen’ as one of my correspondents argued.

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

The All Happening Chimp

WARNING POSTSCRIPT

A greatly more learned professor than this Chimp, has written to me:

Unfortunately, Lee Stroebel’s argument assumes that the big bang cosmology is true along with its timeframe, where hydrogen from the big bang became helium which became all the other elements in turn in supernovas of hydrogen stars, over 13.8 billion years, whereas I believe the Bible’s account of creation, including its timeframe. This is an unfortunate aspect of Stroebel’s writings, which otherwise have a lot of good stuff in them.