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I began to realize that there were bad things that my parents couldn’t completely control, something to do with being Jewish. I learned that everything would be fine if we could only get to “America”.

— Arno Allan Penzias Autobiographical notes (2005)

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The Bible talks of purposeful creation. What we have, however, is an amazing amount of order; and when we see order, in our experience it normally reflects purpose.

The Voice of Genius : Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries (1995)

Well, if we read the Bible as a whole we would expect order in the world. Purpose would imply order, and what we actually find is order.

The Voice of Genius : Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries (1995)

Astronomy leads us to an unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly-improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

The Designed 'Just-so' Universe (1999)

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