The God Experiment: Can Science Prove the Existence of God?Down the centuries there have been various attempts to prove the existence of God, and to demonstrate God's action in the world. Russell Stannard, the distinguished physicist and author, looks at what modern science can bring to the discussion. |
Contents
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Life Beyond Death | 27 |
Staying Within the Law | 36 |
A Meeting of Minds | 49 |
Getting Acquainted with God | 67 |
Why Evil and Suffering? | 80 |
Our Place in the Scheme of Things | 102 |
Human Origins | 137 |
Further Insights from Evolution | 155 |
A Case of Overdesign? | 175 |
God and Time | 196 |
The Ultimate Nature of God | 214 |
Afterword | 234 |
Index | 236 |
How It All Began | 113 |
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Page 175 - It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Page 75 - But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
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Page 153 - This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy. But Sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
Page 215 - But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.