The Awake magazine quoted the physicist P.A.M Dirac while discussing how the periodic law of the elements gives evidence for the existence of a Designer.
g00 8/22 pp. 5-9 Peering Into the Unseen—What Is Revealed?
A close study of the elements and how they fit together to form everything in the universe caused famous physicist P.A.M. Dirac, who was a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, to say: “One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.”
The quotation originally appeared in the May 1963 issue of Scientific American in an article entitled "The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature," and may be read online at this address:
Note what the Awake writer wrote before quoting Dirac:
"A close study of the elements and how they fit together to form everything in the universe caused famous physicist P.A.M. Dirac, who was a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, to say..."
However, Dirac, in his article, never mentions the chemical elements, nor the Periodic Law, nor the Periodic Table, yet the Awake writer attributes Dirac's statement to a close study of them!
This is an example that shows a writer that simply did not read the article from which they quoted.
Worse, the writer made up a false statement in order to fit the quotation into the topic under discussion, which was the Periodic Table of the elements.
