Owen Gingerich

(born 1930) Owen Jay Gingerich is professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In addition to his research and teaching, he has written many books on the history of astronomy. Gingerich is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of the History of Science. A committed Christian, he has been active in the American Scientific Affiliation, a society of evangelical scientists.He has served on the board of trustees of the Templeton Foundation.

"Modern Cosmology and Biblical Creation"

in "Is God a Creationist?" ed Roland Mushar Frye (New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983.

"Had the resonance level in the carbon been four percent higher, there would be essentially no carbon. Had that level in oxygen been only half a percent higher, virtually all the carbon would have been converted to oxygen. Without that carbon abundance, neither you nor I would be here tonight." p132-133
Cited by Strauss in "The Creator Revealed", p37

Cited by Stephen Meyer on p109 of "Return of the God Hypothesis". Commented about Owen's lecture "Biblical Creation and Scientific Cosmogony" at SMU 1985 "did explore what he called a 'strange convergence' between the testimony of modern cosmogony and the specificically biblical idea that the universe flashed instantly into existence a finite time ago."