Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science
Overview
Plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson has been asked hundreds of questions about faith and science:
- What is faith and what is science? Are they compatible?
- Are there realities science cannot explain?
- Is God’s existence a scientific question?
- Is the Bible consistent with the modern scientific understanding of the universe?
- Are there scientific reasons to believe in God?
In this comprehensive volume, Hutchinson answers a full range of inquiries with sound scientific insights and measured Christian perspective. Without minimizing challenging questions, he explores how science and Christianity are mutually supportive and intellectually consistent.
Both God and science truthfully address our curiosity and destiny. Find answers to your deepest questions.
Key Features
- Explores the connection between science and Christian belief
- Addresses common questions raised by believers and unbelievers
- Contains transcribed questions and answers from Veritas Forums
Contents
- A Spiritual Journey
- Are There Realities Science Cannot Explain?
- What Is Faith?
- Do Scientists Have Faith?
- Does Reason Support Christian Belief?
- What Is Scientism?
- Is There Really Spiritual Knowledge?
- Creation and Cosmology
- Do Miracles Happen?
- The Bible and Science
- Of All the World’s Religions, Why Christianity?
- Why Does God Seem Hidden?
- Is There Good and Evil?
- Personal Consequences: So What?
Praise for the Print Edition
In this concise volume readers will encounter a remarkable array of topics relating to science, faith, theology, and philosophy that any thinking person should welcome. Hutchinson fields the questions capably and offers thoughtful answers that will provide stimulating insights on these fundamental issues. The book will arm Christians to confront their own deepest questions and those pressed on them by an unbelieving world. It will also provide non-Christians with a sound entryway into the rationale of Christian belief.
—John H. Walton, professor of Old Testament, Wheaton College, author of The Lost World of Genesis One
Scientific thinker Stephen Jay Gould famously declared science and religion to represent non-overlapping magisteria. Here Ian Hutchinson, a top scientific thinker, insightfully explores the limits of science and faith and where their claims intersect. A valuable yet delightfully readable voice at the intersection of philosophy of science and philosophy of religion, offering scientifically and theologically plausible arguments structured around many of today’s important questions.
—Craig S. Keener, F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary
The questions Ian Hutchinson has been asked, and which he answers in this book, are the questions I have been asked and attempted to answer. Hutchinson is a scientist and a Christian, and has a pastoral heart for those who have deep and enduring questions about the Bible and science and these questioners don’t want pat and simplistic answers. Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? belongs on the shelf of every pastor, every youth pastor, and anyone who teaches the interface of science and faith. It’s that valuable.
—Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary
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