Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell quoted Aristotle, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and the astronomer Fred Hoyle, who famously said he believed "the universe is a put-up job", in a speech titled "Without God We Are Nothing". Cardinal Pell's talk on Sunday, promoted by organisers of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas as a counterpoint to a talk by the atheist author Christopher Hitchens the previous day, included allusions to God as "a first rate mathematician", the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
He said hints of God's presence could be found where physics blurred into philosophy, and that the exact calibration of physical forces that made the universe stable and functional strongly implied a creator.
"All this is too much for blind chance."
Cardinal Pell said evolution was "the best scientific explanation we have at the moment" for the development of life but did not tell the whole story, according to the news report.
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