Dr. Stephen Meyer
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It came bang on, and he realized this is probably how it happened.
This is probably how carbon was formed in the bellies of stars.
But then he realized for that to happen, there needed to be this whole series of just right parameters where the relationship between gravitation and electromagnetism was just right.
All these parameters fell within these very narrow sweet spots again.
And he had been a staunch atheist.
He actually gave the Big Bang theory the name, the Big Bang, because he wanted to stigmatize it.
It was a pejorative term for him.
Ha, ha, ha, the Big Bang.
Yeah, no one believes that stuff.
Well, he ended up โ and he did that because he was very much a staunch scientific atheist.
And he completely changed his worldview as a result of his own discovery about the fine tuning.
And he was later quoted as saying that a common sense interpretation of the evidence suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics and chemistry in order to make life possible.
So he was โ like Einstein, Hoyle changed his mind.
And we've had โ
In the film, The Story of Everything that we have coming out at the end of April, April 30th, we tell the story of these discoveries, but also the stories of the scientists who have changed their minds about the big questions, in particular the God question, as a result of some of the discoveries that they themselves have made.
Yeah.
That becomes their God.
Yeah.
Well, we call this, there's a term in, um, probability reasoning called probabilistic resources.
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