“God’s book, science and proof serve science and faith.”

with their book God and science guide (Guy Trédaniel, 2021) and Michel-Yves Polloré and Olivier Bonachez throw a boulder into a lake. They aim to describe recent developments in the fields of physics and cosmology, and conclude Evidence for the existence of God (who are they) Modern, clear, rational, multidisciplinary, can be confronted objectively (sic) for the real universe. after me “The Undivided Covenant of Materialism” In the intellectual world happy authors “Science seems to be God’s ally”. Unfortunately, the book contains lies that can only be understood by non-scientists. At the same time and erroneously, he proposes an intellectual scheme of the question of God, which can be called “empty materialism.”

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Nature is sublime and everyone, especially scientists, can be surprised by its delicate design. According to M. Bolloré and Bonnassies, contemporary science could have explored this arrangement to such a level of detail that we are no longer far from laying our finger on the Creator, as in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It is neither more nor less than a teleological argument: Nature, perfectly harmonious, can only be the work of a whole being, God. The authors fit this argument without calling it and distorting it to serve their purpose. Should the sensory experience of nature pass through the practice of science? No, of course: the lone bird-hunting hiker over a lake experiences breathtaking nature without a scientific approach. Whatever mm. Bolloré and Bonnassies, no one waited for the Hubble Space Telescope to contemplate creation and feel God’s gesture around them.

Realistic mistakes

The authors claim that modern cosmology “This means that the universe had a beginning”, Confirmation of the story of creation and the existence of the Creator. This is wrong: The Big Bang theory proposes that the universe occupies a state of increasing density and temperature when we go back in time, to the point where it reaches regimes of density and temperature where our current knowledge of physics no longer applies. Therefore, science is no longer predictive and any scientific statement about beginnings can be merely an uncertain extrapolation. But what does it matter, mm. Bolloré and Bonnassies sell bear skin: We were going to find the original stitches.

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But we really proved it God’s presence ? In the background, we understand that the authors invoke the cosmological argument: for any movement to have a cause, there must be a primary movement, which is God. Again, this point is illustrated by reducing the historical argument to an empty expression: Science has found the first step, God is the first step, and thus science has found God. But this evidence does not satisfy believers! This wonderful watchmaker who started the Big Bang and computed the fundamental constants of physics, is he the God of Mercy who descended to Earth and suffered passionately for the forgiveness of sins? Obviously, no one believes this.

Spiritual dead end

Of course, think of the harmony of the universe or God as The first mobile phone Believers can rest in their faith, but cosmological and teleological arguments are a spiritual dead end, they do not help progress on the path of belief in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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This spiritual dilemma hides another logical thing this time around: God’s existence cannot be an object of science. As Karl Popper teaches us, only false claims, that is, the contribution of new experiments can be invalidated, are scientific claims. This is how science progresses: through the gradual falsification and refinement of its content. This excludes from science, in principle, a series of statements, including the existence of God. So, resorting to science to prove the existence of God is a double position, in addition to the more well-known position.

God is revelation

First, God is a revelation. So for those who really want to meditate, “Faith and reason are two wings”, John Paul II wrote in Faith and reason, an inescapable monument to the current issue and a gap in working references. Also, these wings are not alien to each other. Faith is fueled by knowledgeKnowing God is primarily through the study of the life and teachings of Christ, through interpretation and theology, which are two sciences. Of course, believers are invited to acquire this knowledge to strengthen their faith, as suggested another o The light of faith.

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In an effort to banish materialism into a state of “irrational belief,” M. Boluri and Bonassis with each other. The suggestion that God appears in nature as evidence of his existence is material. Rather, limiting the understanding of this aspect to science is even worse: it is empty materialism. His work presents a mystical scientific discourse in the service of common science, suddenly deprived of its principles and subject matter, faith, which has suddenly withdrawn from the field of the human heart.

However, the human heart is where God appears in his first dimension, the spiritual. The power of love, the joy of forgiveness, the continuance of faith and hope, the happiness of love: if there are those we preach, it is surely these inner movements that we must try to describe and awaken. For if God also manifests himself in the contemplation of creation, this, though transcendent, is not his only work.