2. How can any thinking person choose God over science?
questions

3. Carl sagan
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than it persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

4. the virgin birth of the universe

5. How can any thinking person choose God over science?
questions

7. Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour
ΙΧΘΥΣ
Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ
Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour

8. there is no necessary conflict between science & faith
Claim #1
there is no necessary conflict between science & faith

9. Genesis 1:1-3 NLT
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

11. Robert Jastrow
Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a Biblical view of the origin of the world: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply in a definite moment of time, in a flash of light and energy.

12. Francis collins
The Big Bang cries out for a divine explanation. It forces the conclusion that nature had a defined beginning.

13. kissing
microbe exchange

15. Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.

16. Claim #2
our current scientific understanding fits better with belief in God than with atheism

17. Something from Nothing

18. the virgin birth of the universe

19. Something from Nothing
Order from Chaos

20. the cosmic welcome mat theory

21. Francis collins
When you look from the perspective of a scientist at the universe, it looks as if it knew we were coming. There are 15 constants — the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc. — that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people. 

23. This wheel doesn’t have a million numbers on it
It doesn’t even have a million, million numbers on it
It has 10 to the power of 60 numbers on it

24. Sir John Polkinghorne
for us to be possible requires a balance between the effects of expansion and contraction which at a very early epoch in the universe’s history (the Planck time) has to differ from equality by not more than 1 in 10^60.

25. Sir john polhhrone
The numerate will marvel at such a degree of accuracy. For the non-numerate I will borrow an illustration from Paul Davis of what the accuracy means. He points out that it is the same as aiming at a target an inch wide the other side of the observable universe, twenty thousand million light years away and hitting the mark.

26. Douglas adams in Richard dawkins
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

27. Something from Nothing
Order from Chaos
Life from non-living things

29. 12.6 trillion, trillion, trillion years
To be or not to be, that is the question.

32. 455 exabytes 10^18

33. Something from Nothing
Order from Chaos
Life from non-living things
Consciousness from non-consciousness

34. Richard Dawkins, the God Delusion
[But] The origin of the eukaryotic cell is an even more momentous and difficult and statistically improbable step than the origin of life [and] the emergence of consciousness might be another major gap whose bridging was of the same order of improbability.

35. Something from Nothing
Order from Chaos
Life from non-living things
Consciousness from non-consciousness

36. How can any thinking person choose God over science?

37. Something from Nothing
Order from Chaos
Life from non-living things
Consciousness from non-consciousness

38. Pray