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Authors Bolloré and Bonnassies explore a serious, significant thesis, citing the multitude of ways that modern sciences demonstrate the dynamic proposition that God is real. Evidential materials depict theology and history as interwoven, mutually supportive phenomena, stressing a viewpoint typically rejected by proponents of both elements. Sciences provide the concentration for the book's first half, "Evidence Within the Sciences," emphasizing the Big Bang theory, holding that the universe was the outgrowth of a tiny dot of heat, expanding over millions of years and implying a creator. The authors stress that chemistry, physics, and biology interacted as varying species and environments developed and evolved after the Big Bang.
In the book's second half, "Evidence from Outside the Sciences," Bolloré and Bonnassies employ theological proofs, including biblical accounts, deftly balancing the previously cited scientific aspects with the actions and intentions of God. Treated with perspicacity are evolutionary efforts of Judaism, including the return of its people to their God-designated homeland, and the miracle of Fatima, during which, in 1917, thousands of onlookers saw changes in the sun, supported by photographs of that unique occurrence. One crucial question unites and supports the authors' central thesis: if there is no God, no divine oversight, why do humans innately feel the need to help one another?
Collaborator Bolloré brings to this remarkable investigation his background as a computer engineer, while Bonnassies offers his experience as a Polytechnique graduate with a license in theology. Their thought-provoking, shared compendium, an effort of four years, contains supportive graphs, photographs, and historical and societal contributions aimed at convincing religious believers, spiritual seekers, and materialists of the truths they have uncovered and inaugurated throughout. Members of all these cited groups will find in their work a spiritual approach to scientific fact and a rational approach to ethereal truths.
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