32. Schroeder, page 162.
33. Schroeder, page 164.
34. Pickover, Time: A Traveler’s Guide, page 181.
35. Poem by Walter Chalmers Smith (1824–1908).
36. Tozer, quoting Thomas Blacklock’s poem “Come, O My Soul,” page 83.
37. Tozer, quoting William Cowper’s poem “Sometimes A Light Surprises,” pages 71-72.
38. Genesis 1:3.
39. Revelation 22:5.
40. John 8:12.
41. 1 John 1:5.
42. Revelation 21:23-25.
Chapter 12: Science, Scripture, and Sovereignty
1. Matthew 13:11.
2. Luke 7:16.
3. Matthew 9:33.
4. Mark 7:37.
5. Mark 1:27.
6. Luke 9:43; Mark 2:12; Luke 5:26.
7. Matthew 8:19.
8. Luke 5:8.
9. John 1:49.
10. John 1:29.
11. John 12:19.
12. Luke 8:25.
13. Mark 1:36-37.
14. Matthew 14:26,33.
15. Luke 2:47.
16. John 7:15.
17. Mark 12:37.
18. Matthew 7:29.
19. Luke 4:20,22.
20. John 4:29,42.
21. John 12:13.
22. John 7:45-46.
23. Luke 23:8.
24. Mark 15:39.
25. Luke 24:32.
26. Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus: The Man Who Lives (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1975), page 74.
27. Clifford A. Pickover, Keys to Infinity (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995), page 193.
28. Michael J. Behe, “Tulips & Dandelions,” Books & Culture, September/October 1998, page 34. [The British mathematician is Oxford University’s renowned Roger Penrose.]
29. Russ Johnston, “Faith That Works,” Discipleship Journal, issue 3, page 5.
30. Matthew 17:20, RSV.
31. George Croly (1780–1860), “Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart.”
INDEX
Adams, Douglas, 173
Alcubierre, Miguel, 158
Allen, Woody, 59, 167
Anderson, Carl, 112
Antimatter, 13, 112-113, 118
Argyle, Edward, 70
Asimov, Isaac, 39
Asteroids, 156-157
Atoms
elemental atom, 17-19, 103-105
number in human body, 17-19, 94
subatomic level, 19-20, 105-112
ATP (adenosine triphosphate), 21, 62, 94
Augustine, Saint, 168
Bacteria, 27, 70, 80
Baughan, David M., 18
Behe, Michael, 65
Bethe, Hans, 147
Bierce, Ambrose, 36
Bioethics, 73-78
Black holes, 152-154
Blacklock, Thomas, 178
Blood vessels, 24-25, 94
Body as
bride, 97-99
incarnate, 98-99
temple, 97-98
Bohr, Niels, 132-133, 136
Bone, 87-89, 96
marrow, 27, 89, 96
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 37
Botkin, Jeffrey, 75
Brain, 39-60, 95-96
Brain waves, 41-42
with ALS patients, 42
Brand, Paul, 80, 87
Brownlee, Donald, 150-151
Calcium, 88-89
Campbell, Jeremy, 46, 48
Capillaries, 24-26
Caplan, Arthur, 76
Carbon, 104-105
Carlyle, Thomas, 158
Carver, George Washington, 15
Chalmers, David J., 133
Chesterton, G.K., 147
Chromosomes, 62-66, 76, 97
Circulation of blood, 23-27, 94-95
Clarke, Arthur C., 117
Cloning, 73-74, 76-78
Cole, K.C., 172-173
Comets, 151, 156
Comte, Auguste, 147
Conservation of energy, 122-126
Cosby, Bill, 47
Cosmic dust, 157
Cowper, William, 178
Creating life, 76-78
Crick, Francis and DNA, 64, 71
Darwin, Charles, on the eye, 32
Davies, Paul, 106
Democritus, 103
Denton, Michael, 55, 68
Diehl, Anna Mae, 86
Digestive system, 84-87, 96
Dillard, Annie, 11, 16
Dimensionality
and God, 154, 163-164, 171-173
and space, 162, 170-171
Dirac, Paul, 112, 132
DNA, 40, 63-67, 69, 72-76, 96-97
copying of, 66
mathematical probability of evolving, 69-73
of fertilized egg, 91-97
statistics of length, width, weight, 65, 97
Dolphin, Jr., Lambert, 168
Dyson, Freeman, 137
E = mc2, 112, 118, 120, 123-124
Ear, 35-37, 51, 80, 95
Earth, 144-146, 150-151, 156-157, 159, 176
Eccles, Sir John, 59
Eddington, Arthur, 105-106
Ei nstein, Albert, 44, 101, 119, 123, 126, 128-131, 136, 162-163, 167, 174-175, 190
Electromagnetism, 115-116
Electrons, 107, 109, 115, 135
Eliot, T. S., 58
Entropy, 122-123, 126-128
Eternity, 23, 27, 44, 139, 163
Eugenics, 73, 75-76
Evolution, time and mathematical probability of, 67-73
Eye, 32-35, 95, 176
Faber, Frederick William, 167
Ferris, Timothy, 107-108
Feynman, Richard, 132-133
Fission, 117-120
Forces of physics (four), 113-117
Foreknowledge vs. free will, 165
Foster, David, 70-71
Fuller, Buckminster, 18
Fusion, 117-120, 147-148, 152-153
Galaxies, 124-125, 143-146
Gamma ray bursts, 155, 159
Gene therapy, 73, 75
Genetic engineering, 75-76
Germ cell manipulation, 75
Gershon, Michael D., 85
Glenn, John, 141
Gott, Richard, 153
Grand unified theory (GUT), 116
Graviton, 110-111
Gravity, 113-116, 130, 137, 164
Great Attractor, 144-145
Great Voids, 144
Great Wall, 144-145
Greene, Brian, 132, 135
Hair, 82-83
Ha wking, Stephen, 42, 116-117, 143, 152
Heart, 23-24, 94
Heaven, 139, 161-163, 165, 167-168
Heisenberg, Werner, 132, 134
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, 125, 134-135
Hemoglobin, 26, 29, 95
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 144
Horgan, John, 70
Howells, William Dean, 167
Hoyle, Fred, 70-71, 101, 103
Human body, number of atoms summary, 94
Human Genome Project, 64, 73-74
Huxley, Thomas, 70-71
Immune system, 27-28, 89
Intestine—see Digestive System
Jeans, Sir James, 148
Jesus, 28-29, 35, 37, 57-58, 84, 87, 94, 98-99, 171-172, 179, 182-184
Johnson, Paul, 58-59
Johnston, Russ, 186
Jupiter, 146, 150-151, 156, 159
Kidney, 90, 96
Kierkegaard, Søren, 169
Kirshner, Robert, 104-105
Language, 50-53, 96
Laws of motion, 121-122
Laws of thermodynamics, 122-128
Leikind, Bernard J., 168
Leonard, George, 18-19
Lewis, C. S., 43-44, 87, 165
Life as a vapor, 166
Light, 174-179
and the spiritual realm, 177-179
as energy packets, 176
Lilienthal, David E., 149
Li
ver, 84-86, 96
Lungs and breathing, 28-30, 95
MacDonald, Gordon, 36-37
Magnetars, 155
Mars, 151, 156
Marshall, Ian, 134
Maxwell, James Clerk, 115
Memory, 44-50
command to remember, 49-50
feats, 44-46, 96
forgetting, 48-49
long term vs. short term, 47
Mercola, Joseph M., 52
Merton, Thomas, 15
Meteoroids, 157
Meyer, Stephen C., 72
Morowitz, Harold, 69-70
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 184
Muscles, 29, 54, 84, 89-90, 96
Musculoskeletal system, 87-90
Mutation, 66-67, 69
Nails, 83
Nebulae, 156
Nee, Watchman, 186
Neurons, 39-40
Neurotransmitters, 40-41
Neutrinos, 109-111
Neutrons, 107-108, 111, 118-119
Neutron stars, 108, 154-155
New Jerusalem, 115, 179
Newton, John, 168
Newton, Sir Isaac, 114-115, 121-122, 152
Newton’s Laws of Motion, 122, 136
Ovaries, 91
Oxygen, 24-26, 28-30, 95, 104
Packer, J. I., 140
Photons, 33, 35, 110, 115, 128, 148, 153, 162, 175-176, 185
Pickover, Clifford, 154
Piper, John, 170
Planck, Max, 132, 136
Planets, 150-152
Platelets, 27, 89
Polkinghorne, John, 132
Port, Otis, 56
Prayer, 42-44, 136, 164-165, 177
Protons, 107-108, 111, 116
Pulsars, 155
Quantum mechanics, 102-103, 131-137
Quarks, 108-109, 111
Quasars, 156, 159
Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 106
Randomness, 26, 69, 71-72, 123, 134
Red blood cells, 24-27, 89, 95
Reddy, D. Rai, 56
Relativity
General Relativity, 128-131, 137, 153, 156-157
Special Relativity, 128-132
Respiration, 28-30, 188-189
Retina, 32-34, 67, 95, 176
RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), 111-112
Ross, Hugh, 115, 135, 159, 172
Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan, 47-48
Rutherford, Ernest, 106
Sagan, Carl, 71, 143
Sandage, Allan, 144
Saturn, 151
Savants and memory, 44-45
Schroeder, Gerald L., 68, 71, 176-177
Schrödinger, Erwin, 132
Schrödinger’s cat, 102, 195
Schutzenberger, Marcel P., 69
Senses, 31-38
Shakespeare, 162-163
Shepard, Roger, 102
Siler, Todd, 56
Silver, Lee, 76
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 82-83
Singer, Maxine, 65
Skeleton—see Bone,
Skin, 20, 38, 79-81, 96
Sleep, 53-55
hours of, 55
REM, 54
Smell, 37-38
Solar flares, 149
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 142
Space, 169-173
and miracles, 171-172
and relative size, 172-173
and the afterlife, 172
and the void, 169-170
Sperm, 62, 64, 75, 91, 96
Spurgeon, Charles, 15
Staguhn, Gerhard, 34, 107, 109, 139, 141
Stars, 146-147
visible in night sky, 146
Steer, Clifford, 86
Stem cell manipulation, 75
Stomach, 85, 87
Strong nuclear force, 108, 113-114, 116
Subatomic particles, 19-20, 94, 105-112, 116, 134
Sun, 109-110, 119, 147-149, 153-155, 176, 179
Sunspots, 148
Supernovas, 155-156
Superstrings, 107, 136-139
Sweat glands, 81-82
Tachyon, 110
Taste, 37-38, 95
Teeth, 83-84, 88
Testicles, 91
Themistocles, 48-49
Theory of everything (TOE), 116-117
Thomson, Sir J. Arthur, 18
Time, 162-169
“all the time in the world,” 43-44, 164-165
artificial barriers of, 165-166
dilation of, 164
dimensions of, 114, 130, 163-164
quotations of, 167-169
Touch, 37-38, 80, 95
Townes, Charles, 144
Tozer, A. W., 57
Treffert, Darold A., 45
Trotsky, Leon, 36
Tyndall, John, 18
Universe, 17, 70-71, 101, 104, 109-116, 121-122, 124-127, 131, 135-137, 142-146, 152-154, 158-159, 169-170, 173, 174, 185
VanLoom, Hendrik Willem, 168
Vapor, 14, 166
Venus, 150-151
Viruses, 27
Vision—see Eye
Void, space and the, 169-170
von Baeyer, Hans C., 115
Wald, George, 68-69
Ward, Peter, 150-151
Warp drives, 157-158
Watson, James, 64
Watson, Lyall, 59-60
Weak nuclear force, 113, 116
Weinberg, Steven, 143-144
White blood cells, 27-28, 89
Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 70-71
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 168
Will, George, 141-142
Witten, Edward, 137
Wormholes, 157-158
Zohar, Danah, 134
ABOUT the AUTHOR
RICHARD A. SWENSON, M.D. is a physician and futurist, with a B.S. in physics Phi Beta Kappa from Denison University and an M.D. from the University of Illinois School of Medicine. Following fifteen years teaching with the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Dr. Swenson currently researches and writes full-time about the intersection of culture, health, faith, and the future. He is a highly requested speaker on the implications of societal change to a variety of audiences, including career, professional, and management groups; major church denominations; members of Congress; and the Pentagon.
Dr. Swenson and his wife, Linda, live in Menomonie, Wisconsin, with their two sons, Adam and Matthew.