This is an image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) of quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), some 2.5 billion light years from Earth. It was the first quasar ever to be identified, being discovered in the early 1960s by Allan Sandage, who also determined the value of the Hubble constant and first calculated the age of the Universe. (Image from ESA/Hubble and NASA) Much too late, I learned that Dr. Sandage lived in San Gabriel, California, just a few blocks from the house in which I grew up. I would have loved to meet him.
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle — an architect.
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