The Evidence
Scientific Intersections
Where Scripture and natural science align or interact
Biblical Foreknowledge: Scientific Statements Ahead of Their Time
In 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis cut maternal deaths in the First Division of Vienna General Hospital from 18.27% in April to 2.2% in June by ordering hand-washing — a practice Leviticus 13-15 and Numbers 19 had prescribed in detail some three thousand years earlier.
medium confidence
DNA and Information Theory
medium confidenceBiological
Francis Crick's 1958 sequence hypothesis established that the message in DNA lies in the order of the bases, not in their chemistry — and chemistry does not dictate that order, any more than the properties of ink dictate the sentences on a page.
Fine-Tuning of the Universe
high confidenceCosmological
Roger Penrose calculated that the initial low-entropy state of the universe occupies one part in 10^(10^123) of the available phase space, and the cosmological constant sits some 120 orders of magnitude below the value quantum field theory naively predicts.
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The Kalam Cosmological Argument
high confidenceCosmological
In 2003 Arvind Borde, Alan Guth and Alexander Vilenkin proved that any universe expanding on average cannot be extended infinitely into the past — it has a boundary. The Kalam argument takes that boundary and asks what stands on the other side of it.
Big Bang Cosmology and the Beginning of the Universe
high confidenceCosmological
In 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson found a 3.5-kelvin hiss coming from every direction of the sky and could not get rid of it; it was the afterglow of a universe that had a beginning, and it won them the 1978 Nobel Prize.
Origin of Life Probability Thresholds
medium confidenceBiological
Eugene Koonin of the National Center for Biotechnology Information calculated the odds of a coupled replication-translation system arising by chance anywhere in the observable universe at about one in 10^1,018 — and concluded that an infinite multiverse was required to rescue the number.