This week we start moving forward looking at the number of steps it will take to get us from the Big Bang to our little blue planet.  Along the way we may see God’s third miracle in our journey from nothing to us.  God’s fingerprint shows helps point us to His great love for us! “Even with so much still to discover and learn about the way the world is and how it came to be this way, an abundance of evidence suggests an answer to the why question: we are here to seek and to find God and then to use all the resources he has so painstakingly and generously provided, within the amazingly stable and optimal climate epoch he established, to encourage people from every ethnic and cultural group in the world to receive God’s redemptive offer.  God’s desire to bring redemption to a vast and variegated population explains why the history of the Milky Way Galaxy, the solar system, Earth, and life looks as it does.”  Hugh Ross, Improbable Planet, 2016 “A common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.  The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put the conclusion almost beyond question.”  Hoyle, The Universe: Past and Present Reflections, 1982 “All galaxies in the early history of the universe, and low-mass galaxies forming right now, are metal-poor, making them unlikely habitats for life.  Similar problems attach to globular clusters and irregular galaxies. We now have reason to suppose that large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way that formed at about the same time are substantially more habitable than galaxies of different ages and types.  The metal content of a galaxy is highly dependent not just upon its age but also on its mass.  Without enough metals, there aren’t enough materials for building terrestrial planets. And without terrestrial planets, there are no environments suitable for life.  Our very massive, spiral galaxy, then, is an especially suitable home for a habitable planet and solar system, while providing an optimal position for viewing and discovering both our own galaxy and the wider universe.”  Gonzales and Richards, The Privileged Planet, 2004 

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