Christian Screed Masquerading as Science

As a person with a "better than average" understanding of modern physics, I was lost in many places in this book. The crux of the author's argument is the idea of causality in physics (or lack thereof). He fails to explain the essentials of this idea, making the rest of the book very hard to put together in one's mind. This weakness further muddies the waters within the author's citing--without real explanation--of a geyser of philosophical theories, and some mathematical concepts such as Minkowski hyperspace.

It's interesting to note that this author falls back on an omnipotent God to explain apparent holes in the physical theories he describes. This is exactly the same argument used by Newton in his description of the essence of gravity. The fact that we can't yet prove or explain certain phenomena or ideas, does not necessarily prove that these phenomena were put in place by an omnipotent God.

The author is clearly wrong on a couple of theological ideas: First, that Jesus founded Christianity. (He did not and might well be more than a bit disappointed in some instantiations of the faith established in His name.) Second, the author refers to Buddhism and other non-Judaeo-Christian religions as "false" beliefs.

The author claims that Christianity is the "only" religion "endorsed" by God. Even if you accept that God created the universe, God's exclusive endorsement of Christianity does not logically follow from this argument, notwithstanding the New Testament Bible verses that the author cites. At this point, the book betrays itself as Christian screed, and listeners expecting a cogent argument will summarily turn it off.

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