God's Undertaker

On Saturday I finished a book that I had borrowed from a friend of mine by Mathematician and Philosopher John Lennox: God's Undertaker -- Has Science Buried God? It was a very good book, well written, logical, with a smattering of humor (well, things I found humorous...). The book is a good examination of faith as it applies to origin science: Does science prove evolution? Can science prove whether or not the world is created?

Is faith "delusional" as Richard Dawkins, a prominent atheist, would say? Or is it a faith in the nonexistence of God that drives atheists like Richard Dawkins to any length to manufacture methods that the universe could manufacture itself?

Starting from Physics, Astronomy, and other non-biological sciences, then delving into evolution and its various meanings and theories, and finally constructing an argument for the existence of a Creator based on Information Theory, Lennox debates his points well, and also takes on the task of preemptively answering key challenges to his argument.

Altogether, I really liked the book, and I plan on getting a copy for myself, but I would like to leave one thing with you: The last couple things that Lennox says in the book (don't worry, it's not much of a spoiler, lol):

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

Inevitably, of course, not only those of us who do science, but all of us, have to choose the presupposition with which we start. There are not many - essentially just two. Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.

-- John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker