Sermon Illustrations

The anthropic principle states that in our own universe, all these seemingly arbitrary and unrelated values in physics have one strange thing in common: They are precisely the values needed to get a universe capable of supporting life.

…Physicist Freeman Dyson said: “I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.”

…Astronomer George Greenstein writes: “If this is the best way to make a universe, how did the universe find out?”

Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live? (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Pub., Inc., 1999), 64-65.