1. Fred Hoyle, “Let There Be Light,” Engineering and Science (November 1981).
2. Quoted in John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe (New York: Avon, 1989), 109.
3. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 174.
4. George Greenstein, The Symbiotic Universe (New York: William Morrow, 1988), 27.
5. Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1984), 199.
6. Stephen Hawking, ed., Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: A Reader’s Companion (New York: Bantam, 1992), 142.
7. Paul Davies, Superforce (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), 243.
8. William Keel, “Quasars Explained,” Astronomy, vol. 31, no. 2 (February, 2003), 42-47.
9. Ibid. Alexei Fileppenko, “When Stars Explode,” 42-47.
10. Keel, 35-41.
11. Jan van Paradijs, “From Gamma-Ray bursts to Supernovae,” Science, 286 (1999) 693-95.
12. Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions—The World As I See It (New York: Bonanza, 1931), 40.
13. Hugh Ross, Beyond the Cosmos (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1996), 100–102.
14. Carl Sagan, Contact (New York: Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, 1985), 420.
15. Ibid., 430, 431.
16. William Lane Craig, The Kalam Cosmological Argument (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2000), 63.
17. Francis A. Schaeffer, He Is There and He Is Not Silent (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1976), 9.
18. Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2004).