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  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

  Cell, 20-22, 61-63, 88-89, 94-95

  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

  James, William, 49

  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.

 

 

 


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