"God does not play dice." ~ Albert Einstein
We're not that far from Ash Wednesday, so a few weeks ago I was shopping for my annual spiritual reading. For many years I have read at least one such book during the 40 days of Lent. (It's much easier than giving up two cookies with afternoon tea.)
At the very bottom of my weekly email Kindle sales, I spotted an interesting choice: God, The Science, The Evidence. It was offered for an enticing 99 cents, so I downloaded it. Then I started skimming the first few pages. As you can guess, I'm now a third of the way through reading the book.
It's an engrossing education in many ways. For example, I was not aware that both Stalin and Hitler persecuted scientists for teaching that the universe had a beginning. I was vaguely aware that the famous scientist Albert Einstein had escaped a dangerously anti-Semitic Germany during the early years of the Third Reich. (Hitler called Einstein's work "Jewish physics.") But I had no clue that Einstein was one among many dozens of brilliant physicists, mathematicians, and other esteemed scientists who were hunted down, stripped of their professional status, imprisoned, tortured, and executed for their teachings.
As the book explains in depth, Marx and Engel's dialectical materialism required belief in an eternal universe--no beginning, no end. Both Nazism and Communism demanded a godless mindset. No dissent from atheism was tolerated by the murderous dictators of either regime, not even from their most prestigious intelligent minds. It was a heartbreaking chapter, to read of so much genius destroyed.
God, The Science, The Evidence often presents its information in scientific form. I'll admit the various equations are eye-glazing, but I realize they have to be presented to support the conclusions the authors are explaining. If you're not mathematically inclined, as I am not, skip ahead. But the mathematical proofs offered, as explained in the accompanying text, are staggering in their implications in support of a Creator God.
The book is a gripping history of how the "Big Bang" theory came to be and the modern advances in scientific research that support its validity. If you enjoy learning, I highly recommend God, The Science, The Evidence. I'll need a new "God book" for Lent, but that is a small price to pay.
