Dr. Stephen Meyer

And then he breathed a sigh of relief and said, okay, we've got an eternal universe again.

But then some other physicists in particular, a French, a Belgian named Father Lemaitre, he was a Catholic priest, he started working with Einstein's equations and showed that even with his fine-tuning, his fiddling, the equations weren't stable.

that the slightest perturbation in matter this way or that way would cause either a re-collapse or an expansion.

And then further, Hubble was discovering that when he looked at the actual evidence, that the universe was expanding.

And so Lemaitre and a Cambridge physicist named Arthur Eddington

challenged Einstein on this.

Eddington urged him to get out to California and see what Hubble was seeing.

And so there's some famous newsreel footage.

We can even get you a little clip of this if you like.

It's really awesome, where Einstein is going in the telescope with Hubble and looking.

We've got it in the film.

It's pretty awesome.

And they go up this kind of elevator to the telescope, and they're looking out.

And then two weeks later, Einstein gives an interview to the New York Times, and he says, well, that

He says the three hardest words in the English language, I was wrong.

And he says Hubble and his colleague, Humason, had shown that the universe was not static.

It was dynamic.

Therefore, it had a beginning.

And he later said that his fiddling with his own equations to obscure the reality of the beginning was the greatest blunder of his life.

I misquoted him in the book.