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This is a radical new book on Christianity for two reasons. First there is the science aspect. The book shows results from modern physics, specifically relativity and quantum mechanics that over-turn our conventional view of reality. The detailed arguments as to how physics produced this new view of reality are in an appendix and will be of interest to science minded people. For people who have trouble with science there is an analogy that makes things clear without the science. The analogy is based on an amusement park ride such as the Haunted Mansion at Disneyworld. There are many consequences of this new viewpoint. For starters you can prove the existence of God. As far as I can tell the proof presented here for the existence of a Creator appears to be original although I would not be surprised to find out that it appeared in some obscure philosophical journal. The results also do away with evolution by chance but evolution by design still remains a possibility. Mathematicians have shown many times over the years that evolution by chance is impossible by using arguments involving probability but it has always been hard for non-mathematicians to follow the reasoning and atheists have always claimed there must be mistakes in the calculations. Now with the new view of reality from modern physics there is no need to calculate probabilities because you can just show that nothing is happening by chance. In addition you can produce a strong argument for the existence of a human soul and if you think you have free will that is actually an argument for the existence of a soul as well. The science only shows that there must be a Creator but it does not show that the God of the Bible is the Creator however in various places throughout the book you can see how certain statements in the Bible are consistent with the new perspective from modern physics, especially in the creation story in Genesis chapter 1. These days it is often said that Science has proved the Bible wrong but what you actually find is that the Bible has proved that Science is right! The second major aspect of the book is that it presents the Biblical view of the world in a form that highly rational modern people can understand. Modern people have an entirely different way of thinking about, talking about and understanding things than people had in Biblical times. Christians still mostly use that old Biblical way of thinking, talking and understanding but for modern people that way sounds like gibberish. People from today's Biblical culture don't even realize what is going on. When Christians send missionaries up the Amazon river or to some other out of the way part of the world they know that they need to learn the local language and culture and then translate the Bible into terms that the local people can understand. But the highly rational modern scientific people in Western cultures are just as alien as the natives up the Amazon river. Bible believers need to translate the ideas into a form that the modern general public can understand. They need an explantion of Christianity at the nuts and bolts level. This book does that. Not only does this help modern people understand the Bible it also gives Christians a new perspective on what is going on in the world. Science has not only changed the way people think, talk and understand it has changed their idea of what the world is all about. Modern people have acquired the idea that things in the world can be fixed and that people can go on by themselves to make the world a better and better place. People have lost sight of the basic Biblical explanation of what is going on in the world and as a consequence they have invented all sorts of objections as to how God handles things in the Bible and in the world. For instance one of the big issues for people is the so-called "problem of evil". Why is there so much evil in the world? If there is a God out there why doesn't He stop all the evil and make things nice for everyone? People use that as an argument that there is no God. So the book deals with this supposed problem, it explains why so many bad things are happening in the world and why it still all makes sense. Then people also wonder why if there is a God why doesn't He show Himself? This answer is also included and the answer also makes sense. Then people have had all sorts of other reasons to object to the Bible and Christianity and this book answers the objections that people have to the major issues that don't seem to make sense and which make people doubt the Bible. This book came about because I really wanted to understand the world. Growing up I was culturally a science kind of guy. What I was hearing in religion did not make sense, science made sense. However I always thought God was out there and He was a nice guy and so I kept on looking for answers. So this book contains the answers that I found. I recommend that you simply do not just flat out believe everything I say in this book. I recommend that you do your own investigation of what's going on in this world by consulting lots of different opinions. Then make your own judgment. But what I have here is I think a good starting point for people who want to find the truth. |