RE: The Bible & Science: The Ultimate Power Couple
February 10, 2016 at 11:45 am
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2016 at 11:45 am by Jenny A.)
The book appears to disappoint Christian reviewers at GoodReads:
"I am a Christian and I love science, so this book sounded right up my alley. Unfortunately, while Amazing Truths purports to show how science and the Bible support each other, it actually just draws dubious parallels between scientific and Biblical "facts." It's like a collection of vaguely scientific sermon illustrations. There's a place for that, I guess, but it shouldn't be sold as some kind of apologetics primer. Throw in a lot of sentence fragments and corny jokes and I couldn't even give it a third star for sincerity."
"The author tries to draw parallels between the physical world and the Christian faith. That sounds great but a lot of the parallels are awkward. For example, quantum entanglement is a metaphor for how God speaks to us in mysterious ways. Light is a particle and a wave in the same way that Jesus is God and man. (Too bad he didn't say that water is a metaphor for the Trinity. That's one of my favorites.) You get the idea. The theology was fine but the examples felt forced and superficial."
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26263...ing-truths
In other words it's mostly metaphorical.
"I am a Christian and I love science, so this book sounded right up my alley. Unfortunately, while Amazing Truths purports to show how science and the Bible support each other, it actually just draws dubious parallels between scientific and Biblical "facts." It's like a collection of vaguely scientific sermon illustrations. There's a place for that, I guess, but it shouldn't be sold as some kind of apologetics primer. Throw in a lot of sentence fragments and corny jokes and I couldn't even give it a third star for sincerity."
"The author tries to draw parallels between the physical world and the Christian faith. That sounds great but a lot of the parallels are awkward. For example, quantum entanglement is a metaphor for how God speaks to us in mysterious ways. Light is a particle and a wave in the same way that Jesus is God and man. (Too bad he didn't say that water is a metaphor for the Trinity. That's one of my favorites.) You get the idea. The theology was fine but the examples felt forced and superficial."
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26263...ing-truths
In other words it's mostly metaphorical.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
