Fr. Patrick Gorevan (St. Patrick’s Maynooth) offers some thoughts on God and science at Australia’s MercatorNet. He is discussing a recent book, Science at the Doorstep to God (Ignatius 2023) by Fr. Robert Spitzer:
神父。帕特里克·戈尔万（圣帕特里克·梅努斯）在澳大利亚 MercatorNet 上提供了一些关于上帝和科学的想法。他正在讨论神父最近出版的一本书《科学在上帝门口》（伊格内修斯 2023 年）。罗伯特·斯皮策：

How about the extraordinary and unlikely fine-tuning which was needed for life to emerge? Sir Fred Hoyle, an adamant atheist, after discovering the need for exceedingly precise fine-tuning in the resonance levels of oxygen, carbon, helium, and beryllium needed for carbon bonding and carbon abundance, concluded that “some supercalculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom”.生命出现所需的非凡且不太可能的微调怎么样？坚定的无神论者 Fred Hoyle 爵士在发现碳键合和碳丰度所需的氧、碳、氦和铍的共振水平需要极其精确的微调后，得出结论：“一定有一些超级计算能力的人设计了这些属性。碳原子”。

Spitzer’s most challenging chapter rehearses the background and subsequent development of this point. Spitzer looks long and hard at all of the other options, and comes to the conclusions that it is “virtually impossible” for life to have emerged: the creator (or whatever) would have had to aim at a tiny (1/1010/123 ) volume of the available space. This figure is so unimaginably small (the denominator has so many figures if it were written out the solar system could not contain it) that most physicists agree that it is impossible to hit it. Low entropy, the cosmological constant, the ratio of mass to energy straight after the Big Bang also point to an “impossible” achievement. But it has been achieved; so how did it happen?斯皮策最具挑战性的一章阐述了这一点的背景和随后的发展。斯皮策对所有其他选择进行了长期而艰苦的研究，并得出结论，生命“几乎不可能”出现：创造者（或其他什么）必须瞄准一个微小的（1/1010/123） ）可用空间的体积。这个数字小得难以想象（如果把分母写出来的话，太阳系也容纳不了它，分母的数字是如此之多），以至于大多数物理学家都认为不可能达到它。低熵、宇宙学常数、大爆炸后的质能比也表明这是一项“不可能”的成就。但它已经实现了；那么这是怎么发生的呢？

Many hypotheses have been tried; string theory, cyclic or bouncing cosmologies, the multiverse… All of them cause the problems that they were trying to solve: they require a beginning, they are unobservable, and actually make it impossible in principle to observe what we actually are observing and to be what we actually are: carbon-based intelligent life forms. We really do need an “unrestricted transphysical/transmaterial conscious intelligence” to ground our universe. “God comes knocking at the door of science,”许多假设已经被尝试过；弦理论、循环或弹跳宇宙论、多元宇宙……所有这些都导致了他们试图解决的问题：它们需要一个开始，它们是不可观察的，并且实际上使得原则上不可能观察我们实际正在观察的东西并成为我们实际上是什么：碳基智能生命形式。我们确实需要一种“不受限制的超物理/超物质意识智能”来支撑我们的宇宙。 “上帝来敲科学之门了”

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Actually, if it were not for the sheer number of atheists clustered in science, the atheist approach to the origin of the universe would have been judged as impossible on probability grounds a long time ago.
事实上，如果不是科学界聚集了数量众多的无神论者，无神论者对宇宙起源的解释很早以前就会被认为是不可能的。

Some of us would say: Believe what you feel you can defend but don’t expect the rest of us to believe it on the evidence. The science evidence for atheism has never been very good.
我们中的一些人会说：相信你认为可以捍卫的东西，但不要指望我们其他人会相信证据。无神论的科学证据从来都不是很好。