Does God exist? Modern science shows he must, bestseller argues

Their argument has already gained traction. French edition of their book God, science, evidencePublished in 2021, and subsequent translations in the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, more than 400,000 copies were sold. The English publication, which will be published next week, had the initial launch of the press 110,000.

Readers have long been looking for answers to their origin. Richard Dokins' God's delusion sold more than three million copies. Stephen Hawking A brief history of time sold 25 million. The Bible, of course, is the best -selling book of all time, with about seven billions of copies printed by about seven.

These authors – like dookins and hoking – consider themselves people of science. Bollora, 79 years old, from Brittani, is a computer engineer who founded a series of successful heavy, engineering and mechanical firms; 59 -year -old Bonnassies from Paris studied science and mathematics before his career as an entrepreneur in the French media industry.

Both are also people of faith. Bollora is a lifelong Catholic. Bonnassia, who did not find his Christian faith until his twenties, said that before his appeal he thought that “believers were irrational people,” adding: “God, resurrection, Virgin Mary – I found it crazy.” Nevertheless, it was a logic, he said, it defeated him: “The surprise consisted in the fact that there were many rational reasons to believe in God.”

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Despite their beliefs, they insist that their book is not about spirituality. Bollora, who lived in Western London over the past 15 years, said: “This is not a book about faith or religion. Who is God that He wants, that He thinks that He says: it is very interesting, but this is a matter of religion. This is not what this book is about. ”

Instead, the authors wrote criticism of materialism – the theory that all reality, including our origin, thoughts and consciousness, can be explained exclusively by physical and physical processes.

The materialistic narrative of the beginning of the universe and life on Earth is so fully holes that it and Bonnassia argue that every modern scientific progress increases the force of the case that the “creator” is the only rational explanation.

The ideas of the authors received support from unexpected quarters. The famous physicist Robert Wilson, who was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a space microwave background radiation, agreed to write a preface in the book. “Although the general thesis … that a higher mind can be at the beginning of the universe, it does not give me a satisfactory explanation, I can accept its consistency,” he wrote. “If the universe had a beginning, then we cannot avoid the issue of creation.”

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Their book explores key scientific theories, such as a large explosion, the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and human genome. Each detail was checked with a group of leading scientists to guarantee that arguments cannot be challenged on the basis of scientific inaccuracy.

The conclusions that they come to the main challenge for Orthodoxy, which is the basis of modern science. For example, in the last century, scientists knew that the Universe was expanding. If the stars and galaxies always move on, the logic dictates, the universe should begin at one point in a state of huge density. In 1931, the Belgian theoretical physicist Georges Lemerare called this “primitive atom.” Now we call it a big explosion.

But if all matter comes from this only explosion, and materialism dictates that there is nothing outside of matter that caused a blow?

For most of the 20th century, physicists went around this metaphysical headache with another theory: “Big Crown”. This claimed that the Universe is taking place of the eternal cycle of expansion and reduction; A few billion years after the large explosion, the Universe will cease to become more and more and will begin to contract. The overwhelming power of his own gravity, the universe would squeeze into one point, the theory went, causing another big explosion, then another crunch, in a repeating pattern.

This neat explanation, however, was discredited in the 1990s, when astronomers found that two remote supernova were further than they were supposed to be. They realized that the expansion of the universe did not slow down – how it should have if the theory of a large cryst was held by truth – but is actually accelerated.

“The theory does not work,” said Bollora. According to him, the laws of movement lead to the conclusion that there should have been one beginning, the starting point for the entire physical existence. “Nothing endlessly,” he said. “A reasonable mind must assume that our universe has one beginning.”

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He claims that the only rational explanation of one point is something outside the material world, an external being that could begin it – the God of the Creator.

The authors argue that another key mystery that can be explained only by the existence of some universal God is the beginning of life. “DNA appeared on Earth 3.8 billion years ago, and it was a technological miracle,” Bonnassi said. “All living creatures on Earth: bacteria, people, plants, animals – all of them are encoded by the same DNA.”

According to the theory of evolution, this incredibly complex data storage system is 40,000 billion times more dense than the most advanced computer today – accidentally appeared from the original soup. The authors write: “Although we still do not know how we overcame this gap, or Stronger, How to repeat such an event, we know enough to evaluate its endless incredity. ”

Bollora admitted that the book does not represent evidence of the existence of God. “You cannot prove it,” he said. “You have evidence of one theory-existence of God. And you have evidence for another that does not exist God. The best you can do is compare the two sides of the scale. ”

But he said that many areas of science require the same great jump as it was required by faith in God. “We are all believers,” he said. “Believers in God believe, with some evidence – and believers in materialism, they believe in many things that are a little strange.”

It may be surprising that the most critics of the French edition of the book were not scientists, but priests. “Some theologians say that we do not want evidence of God, because it will reduce the merits of faith,” he said. “We do not want evidence,” they say. “Because the proof will mean that we will not believe.”

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Bolloré and Bonnassies want a great discussion with scientists about their ideas. Last month, they held conferences with leading astrophysicists, neurobioologists and philosophers – believers and unbelievers – in Princeton and Berkeley in the USA and plan similar events in Oxford and Cambridge in the coming months.

Bollora insisted that this was not an evangelical project; He is not trying to turn anyone: “I say again, this is not a book about faith or religion.”

But he said that the discussion about the origin of the Universe raises questions about the meaning of life itself, adding: “I think that everyone should ask himself, at some point in their life:“ We are only the result of chance and necessity? Or are we more than it? ”

God, science, evidence, Michelle-Ivan Bollora and Olivier Bonnassia, will be published by a pillar on October 14 to 22 pounds.