What if the existence of God wasn’t a question of belief, but evidence?

I have gotten the distinct impression that many in our western society see God and religion as a discarded antique of a bygone age – perhaps interesting, but certainly not something to hang one’s hat on. Therefore, reading God – The Science, The Evidence, a secular book which unequivocally promotes the notion of a God is like rain on parched earth, especially for a Rabbi like me. 

French authors Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonassies argue for the existence of a God who created the world and everything in it. Backed by insights from 62 Nobel Prize winners and over 100 leading scientists, the book, published in English this week, explores how modern science may support the existence of a creator God. They point out that there is far more evidence that God exists than that extra-terrestrials exist, yet the world spends billions of dollars trying to prove the existence of aliens on faraway planets.

Bollore, a Christian, is a computer engineer who has built an illustrious career in the mechanical industry. This is his first (and last, he says!) book. Bonnassies is an entrepreneur and author who writes on faith and reason. He was a non-believer until the age of 20.

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The book is divided into three main sections. In the first, the authors provide up-to-date scientific evidence of God’s existence. For example the authors believe that the big bang in and of itself is a proof of God, because something must have caused that big bang in the first place. Thermodynamics, a theory first established in 1824 and theory later proven in 1998 to be scientifically sound asserts that “heat death” is observed through the continually expanding nature of the universe. This scientific notion implies that the universe had a beginning and that every beginning presupposes a creator.

The second section deals with evidence that God exists from a historical perspective. The authors claim that the Torah knew things which no other people knew or could possibly know at the time. For example, the Torah proclaims the sun, moon and the stars to be luminaries, objects which were outside of the earth and provided light. While we might take this idea for granted, most ancient civilisations did not. They all presupposed these lights in the sky to be gods. Furthermore, the Torah points out that every human was created equally in the image of God. We are told in Genesis (5:1) “This is the book of the generation man, created in the image of God”. All of humankind were created equally, and should therefore be treated equally. This flies in the face of the beliefs of many societies, who believed that their kings and queens were gods and goddesses. This in turn allows for beliefs in a hierarchy of greater and lesser beings, normalising the concept of slaves and serfs for many generations afterwards.

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Most notably, in the third section, the authors state that the Jewish people living in their ancestral homeland, speaking the same ancient language as their ancestors, is almost impossible. This statement piqued my interest, and I asked AI what the statistical chances of such a thing occurring were. It provided me with an answer written by academic Nettle in 1998 from a journal article in Lingua stating: “The statistical chance of a nation leaving its homeland 3,000 years ago, returning after millennia, and speaking exactly the same language as its ancestors, is so close to zero that experts describe it as virtually unprecedented or impossible in human history.”

The very fact that we have a state of Israel, in which people speak Ivrit, which for the most part (except for words stolen from English like television or radio which hadn’t been invented 3,500 years ago) is an absolute miracle! There can be no doubt that God exists for something like this to happen, because it is statistically impossible. This calculation does not take antisemitism and genocide into account. Yet here we stand with a State of Israel which is currently in its 77th year and millions of Jews living inside it!

Furthermore, the authors note that God promised this very thing to us thousands of years ago in a prophecy. Isaiah stated in chapter 43: “I will bring your children from the East, will gather you out of the West; I will say to the North, “Give back!” And to the South, “Do not withhold! Bring my sons from afar, And my daughters from the end of the earth”.

The authors believe that this gathering of the exiles from all the four corners of the earth could be nothing less than a fulfilment of the return of fellow Jews from the diaspora to Israel after 1948.  While there are some commentaries who believe that these verses refer to the exile to Babylon, and the ultimate return of the Jews to their home, no less personages than Rashi and Don Yitschak Abarbanel agree that this refers to the ultimate redemption of the Jewish people.

Even Christian theologians agree on this subject. Pope Benedict himself said: “It is not difficult, I believe, to see in the creation of the modern state of Israel the fidelity of God revealed to Israel in a mysterious way.” Even a Pope making this statement is a miracle.

David Reinharc, editor-in-chief of Israel Magazine, says “This book has sparked our interest even if the God the authors believe in is not the God of Israel. At a time when the boat of Judeo-Christian Europe is sinking, we much challenge in all ways whether we ae believers or not, the modern desire to put an end to all forms of transcendence.”

God – The Science, The Evidence is published by Palomar. RRP £22