Lines of Evidence: How Recent Science Infers the Existence of God

Rick Jory

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781035817900
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion & Science

Secular science demands we accept the philosophical dogma of scientific materialism—that only material entities exist. Yet recent science has discovered the immaterial! Also mandated is the assumption that all things must be explained by natural causes. But we now are certain that the universe had a beginning. There was a time when "nature" didn't exist—and yet we must attribute the origin of the universe to nature! And what about Darwin's theory of evolution—taken as fact that every plant and animal owe its origin to a common ancestor and naturalistic causes. At the time of Darwin, over a century and a half ago, no one knew the true complexity of the cell. We now know the simplest of living organisms has 159,662 base pairs of DNA and 182 protein-coding genes. What naturalistic cause put all of this together? Could this be assembled by blind, purposeless accident? What does recent science have to say? And what about recent discoveries in origin-of-life research? Do we now know enough to suggest life could not have created itself? A lot is happening in today's science that is best explained through the Christian worldview. Let's see what some of today's scientists are now saying.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• About the Author
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgement
• Preface
• Part I Setting the Foundation
• Chapter 1 The Nature of Science
• Chapter 2 The Worldview of Materialism/Naturalism
• Chapter 3 The Changing World of Science
• Chapter 4 Challenging or Contradictory Assertions
• Chapter 5 The Glass Being Half Empty or Half Full: An Example from Science
• Chapter 6 Half Empty or Half Full: Another Example from Science
• Chapter 7 One Last Example: Not Being Able to See the “Glass”
• Chapter 8 Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
• Chapter 9 Possibility Versus Probability
• Chapter 10 Where We Are Headed: Worldviews
• Part II The Universe
• Chapter 11 The Universe Had a Beginning
• Chapter 12 Something Rather Than Nothing
• Chapter 13 An Ordered Universe
• Chapter 14 A Finely Tuned Universe
• Chapter 15 Creating a Life-Supporting “Universe” (Lessons from Biosphere 2)
• Chapter 16 Why Is the Universe This Way?
• Part III Materialism/Naturalism
• Chapter 17 Materialism/Naturalism: A Review
• Chapter 18 Disproving the Scientific Dogma of Materialism
• Chapter 19 Is the Worldview of Materialism Correct?
• Chapter 20 Other Examples of the Immaterial
• Chapter 21 Mathematics
• Part IV Playing Nature
• Chapter 22 Creating a Self-Replicating Machine
• Part V Evolution
• Chapter 23 Have We Learned Anything Since Darwin?
• Chapter 24 Is There Evidence for Evolution Occurring Around Us
• Chapter 25 Is There Evidence for Evolution in the Fossil Record?
• Chapter 26 Is There Evidence for Evolution from Transitional (Intermediary) Lifeforms?
• Chapter 27 Can We Show Evidence for Evolution in the Laboratory?
• Chapter 28 What Else Can We Say about Evolution?
• Chapter 29 What We Do See: Structure Complexity
• Chapter 30 What We Do See: Sequence (Mutual Dependency) Complexity
• Chapter 31 What We Do See: Irreducible Complexity
• Chapter 32 What We Do See: Transitional Complexity
• Chapter 33 What We Do See: “Symbiotic” Complexity
• Chapter 34 A Few Additional Comments
• Chapter 35 And One Final Coffin Nail
• Part VI Life
• Chapter 36 Can Lifeless Chemicals Come Alive?
• Part VII Conclusion
• Chapter 37 What Can You Conclude?
• Appendix
• What Is the Best Way to Disprove Christianity?
• Does the Christian Worldview Require Faith?
• If There Is a God that Created the Universe, Wouldn’t We Expect Him to Communicate with His Creation?
• What Exactly Is the Bible?
• Did Jesus Really Die?
• Was the Tomb of Jesus Really Empty?
• Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
• Bibliography