{"id":904,"date":"2003-05-12T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T01:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/05\/12\/yet-another-christian-nobel-laureate\/"},"modified":"2003-05-12T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2003-05-13T01:41:47","slug":"yet-another-christian-nobel-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/05\/12\/yet-another-christian-nobel-laureate","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Christian Nobel Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Colson just brought another Christian Nobel Laureate to my attention: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bell-labs.com\/user\/apenzias\/\">Arno Penzias<\/a>. Dr. Penzias won the Nobel Prize in Physics for co-discovering cosmic background radiation.<\/p>\n<p><i>Dr. Penzias says, \u201cThe creation of the universe is supported by all the observable data astronomy has produced so far. As a result, the people who reject the data can arguably be described as having a \ufffdreligious\ufffd belief.\u201d That is, people who refuse to consider the evidence because it conflicts with their preconceived ideas are following a \u201cdogma\u201d in the most stubborn sense of the&nbsp;word.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In an article in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, Penzias told Dr. Jerry Bergman of the American Scientific Affiliation, \u201cI invite you to examine the snapshot provided by half a century\ufffds worth of astrophysical data and see what the pieces of the universe actually look like.\u2026 In order to achieve consistency with our observations we must \u2026 assume not only creation of matter and energy out of nothing, but creation of space and time as&nbsp;well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Penzias, a Nobel Prize winner, added, \u201cThe best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I had nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a&nbsp;whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakpoint.org\/Breakpoint\/ChannelRoot\/FeaturesGroup\/BreakPointCommentaries\/Speaking+of+Birthdays.htm\">Read the rest of Colson\u2019s commentary\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m updating the <a href=\"http:\/\/xastanford.org\/archives\/scientists-and-their-gods\/\">list of famous scientists who believe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Colson just brought another Christian Nobel Laureate to my attention: Arno Penzias. Dr. Penzias won the Nobel Prize in Physics for co-discovering cosmic background radiation. Dr. Penzias says, \u201cThe creation of the universe is supported by all the observable data astronomy has produced so far. As a result, the people who reject the data \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/05\/12\/yet-another-christian-nobel-laureate\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cYet Another Christian Nobel Laureate\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}