A Common Sense Interpretation Of The Facts

Perhaps The Most Majestic Feature Of Our Whole Existence Is That While Our Intelligences Are Powerful Enough To Penetrate Deeply Into The Evolution Of This Quite Incredible Universe, We Still Have Not The Smallest Clue To Our Own Fate.

Space Isn't Remote At All. It's Only An Hour's Drive Away If Your Car Could Go Straight Upwards.

On Scientific Grounds This Big Bang Assumption Is Much Less The Palatable Of The Two. For It Is An Irrational Process That Cannot Be Described In Scientific Terms. . . . On Philosophical Grounds Too I Cannot See Any Good Reason For Preferring The Big Bang Idea. Indeed It Seems To Me In The Philosophical Sense To Be A Distinctly Unsatisfactory Notion, Since It Puts The Basic Assumption Out Of Sight Where It Can Never Be Challenged By A Direct Appeal To Observation.

Once I Had Learnt My Twelve Times Table (at The Age Of Three) It Was Downhill All The Way.

Once We See, However, That The Probability Of Life Originating At Random Is So Utterly Minuscule As To Make It Absurd, It Becomes Sensible To Think That The Favorable Properties Of Physics, On Which Life Depends, Are In Every Respect Deliberate.... It Is, Therefore, Almost Inevitable That Our Own Measure Of Intelligence Must Reflect Higher Intelligence -even To The Limit Of God.