* The singularity before the Big Bang was roughly the size of a marble and contained everything in it what we now call the universe. Space and time themselves were contained in the singularity. And He made it. www.big-bang-theory.com/
* There are 300 sextillion stars in the universe that came from the marble-sized singularity. That's 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of the little twinklers. blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/
* The Big Bang itself, according to Steven Hawking, if it had been 1/100 millionth of a second less would never have exceeded the gravitational pull of the singularity and the universe would never have been created. If it was 1/100 millionth of a second longer the universe would never have coalesced into matter and would have kept infinitely expanding. That's unbelievable precision and impossible to think it is a random event.
* The strong force and the weak force hold atoms together. Without them all matter disintegrates instantaneously into light. No one can explain what these forces are in any detail.
I have never understood when once you posit the existence of God, and consider some of the above facts, why miracles require such a leap of faith. Do you really think a God who can do all the above is stymied by a run-of-the-mill miracle here in earth? A better question is why doesn't God do miracles more often and even that question involves a massive a priori assumption, e.g. - that He doesn't. Further, we tend to think of miracles in terms of Him jumping through a hoop for something that we want but by so doing, we run smack into one of the consequences of free will - we want the good stuff and then want Him to bail us out when things don't go so well. Occasionally He does, but most of the time we have to live the consequences, good or bad. Welcome to the human condition. Believe in miracles, though, because God is good and you never know when one will come your way.
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