"Dark matter was invoked decades ago to explain why galaxies hold together. Given regular matter alone, galaxies might never have formed, and today they would fly apart. So there must be some unknown stuff that forms invisible clumps to act as gravitational glue. Dark energy hit the scene in the late 1990s when astronomers discovered the universe is not just expanding, but racing out at an ever-faster pace. Some hidden force, a sort of anti-gravity, must be pushing galaxies apart from one another in this accelerated expansion.

K-essence (kinetic-energy-driven quintessence) changes behavior over time in Scherrer’s (theorist) model, clumping early on to help form galaxies, and now forcing the universe apart. Right now, dark matter has a density that decreases as the universe expands, he explained, while dark energy has a density that stays constant as the universe expands.

There is one glaring problem with the idea, which Scherrer admits to. It implies that we live at a very special moment in time when the energy densities of dark matter and dark energy are roughly equal. Scientists hate coincidences.

Britt, Robert Roy. Dark Matter and Dark Energy: One and the Same?
July 12, 2004. Space.com - Science

I like the comment about scientists hating coincidences. There are so many coincidences in nature that forces our common sense to acknowledge the existance and presence of God.

"If we once grasp the true significance of the Christian doctrine of creation - that, in the beginning God made the heaven and the earth - then whatever we see or find in the earth must be a token of His purpose, His energy, His person. It is for this reason that science plays its part in our understanding of God..."

Bragg, Sir William Lawrence (Nobel Prize winner in physics – 1890-1971)
cited by: Buelow, Dr. Ronald. Confessions by Major Scientists and
Mathematicians, p. 8
Lightsource, Vol. 29, Issue 1

"Dr. Kai Pinkernell, a cardiovascular researcher at Tulane University, says he found an encouraging result in pigs that were given experimental heart attacks. When he took fat-derived cells from the pigs and put them into the hearts of the same donor animals, those hearts began to work better.

In fact, they worked just as well as hearts that received stem cells from marrow, the gold standard for this kind of experiment, he said.

But how? The standard explanation would be that the cells, sensing that the heart needed new muscle to replace tissue lost in the heart attack, morphed into heart muscle. But Pinkernell said he can’t prove that. He also says he’s more interested in the results than the explanation."

Some Scientists Look to Fat for Stem Cells
October 2, 2004. Associated Press - Science

The body is an incredible piece of work. It takes greater 'faith' to believe that these intuitive cells came about by an accident, than it is to recognize a divine Creator.

"About two-thirds of scientists believe in God, according to a new survey that uncovered stark differences based on the type of research they do.

The study, along with another one released in June, would appear to debunk the oft-held notion that science is incompatible with religion.

…Nearly 38 percent of natural scientists -- people in disciplines like physics, chemistry and biology -- said they do not believe in God. Only 31 percent of the social scientists do not believe.

…Some stand-out stats: 41 percent of the biologists don’t believe, while that figure is just 27 percent among political scientists.

In separate work at the University of Chicago, released in June, 76 percent of doctors said they believed in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife."

Britt, Robert Roy. Scientists’ Belief in God Varies Starkly by Discipline
August 11, 2005. LiveScience.com

For nearly a century, 40% of American scientists believe in a personal God who answers prayer. The level of belief is highest among practitioners of the hard sciences, such as physics and geology, lower for the soft sciences, such as anthropology.

Alexander, Denis. Science in search of God
Aug. 25, 2001. Guardian Unlimited (UK newspaper)