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emperor Trajan. It is analagous to the one described in the Gospel of Luke. Also see Barclay, The Gospel of Luke , 21.
    23. Eric M. Meyers, “Galilee in the Time of Jesus,” Archeology , November–December 1994, 41; also see Neil Asher Silberman, “Searching for Jesus,” Archaeology , 30–40.
    24. The discovery is best described in Finegan, Archeology of the New Testament , 82; for pictures of the excavated fishing boat, see Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 80–83.
    25. Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament , 82.
    26. William Barclay, The Gospel of John (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975), vol. 2, 52–57.
    27. Greenleaf, Testimony of the Evangelists , 47.
    28. Ibid., 34.
    29. The theorem has been paraphrased in English as follows: “All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undecideable propositions.” See Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (New York: Vintage Books, 1980), 17 for a brilliant explanation of the theorem.
    30. Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 72.
    31. See David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Penrose, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness.
    32. Dennis Overbye, “Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to Universe,” July 4, 2012, The New York Times, Science, NYTimes.com; Gautam Nair, “Discovery May Help Tell Universe Secrets,” July 5, 2012, The Wall Street Journal , A3.
    33. For a detailed description of the Big Bang cosmology and NASA’s research, go to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) website: WMAP’s Universe/Cosmology/Universe 101:Big Bang Theory, http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_theory.html.
    34. See Paul Davies, The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World (New York: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1992); Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (New York: Bantam Books, 1998).
    35. Ibid., NASA, Universe 101: Big Bang Theory.
    36. For a general discussion of the scientific basis for these statements, see Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence (Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 1997); Davies, The Mind of God; Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos (Peabody, MA: NavPress, 1993); Hawking, A Brief History of Time.
    37. See Hubert P. Yokey, Information Theory and Molecular Bi ology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 257.
    38. Ibid., 242.
    39. See Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, Roger L. Olsen, The Mystery of Life’s Origin (Dallas: Lewis and Stanley, 1984, 1992).
    40. Robert Shapiro, Origins: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth (Orangeville, Ontario: Summit Books, 1986), 104. Robert Shapiro was, until his death in 2011, a professor of chemistry at New York University. He remains a leading authority on origin of life research.
    41. Chemical & Engineering News , October 20, 2008, 12; Claudia Dreifus, “A Marine Chemist Studies How Life Began,” The New York Times , Science , May 17, 2010.
    42. Shapiro, Origins: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth , 116.
    43. “Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome,” Science , July 2, 2010. Online publication at www.sciencemag.org: May 20, 2010. Also see: “Craig Venter Creates Synthetic Life Form,” The Guardian , May 20, 2010.
    44. “Ethical Considerations in Synthesizing a Minimal Genome,” Science , December 10, 1999, vol. 286, no. 5447, 2087–90.
    45. Ibid.
    46. See Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (New York: The Free Press, 1996), for a discussion of “irreducibly complex” biochemical systems of the human organism. Behe’s work is controversial, criticized by his adversaries first and foremost on the basis that his conclusions imply intelligent design. Given the time