Counting To God A Personal Journey Through Science To Belief [Paperback]

What if you could harmonize science and faith?

What if science itself pointed to a reality outside of space and time, and a Designer behind all that exists?

In Counting to God, Douglas Ell applies the lens of mathematical analysis to recent scientific discoveries, drawing startling conclusions.

We are in the midst of a scientific revolution, like the Copernican revolution - and equally opposed by guardians of the status quo. Scientific breakthroughs over the past half century contradict the popular paradigm that science and traditional religion do not mix. The ensuing, often heated, debates can be hard for outsiders to follow, because of both the volume of data involved and esoteric truth claims on each side.

Shining a new light on these debates, and perhaps providing the key to the truth, Ell uses scrupulous analysis and probability calculations to make a convincing case that the most advanced, sophisticated thinking in science not only allows for the idea of a designed universe, but encourages it.

As the adage says, numbers don't lie.

Ell's mathematical proofs may provide the turning point for a paradigm shift in the relation between scientific and religious truths.

An MIT graduate with a masters degree in theoretical mathematics, Ell surveys the current state of knowledge in seven areas where modern science supports the existence of God, including the history and physical laws of the universe and our planet, the origin and technology of life, evolution of species, and quantum physics.

Ell also discusses related issues, such as paradigm blindness, the multiverse, the God-of-the-gaps fallacy (and its current equivalent), the truly alien concept of infinity, and others.

Although Counting to God is substantially a work of science, Ell writes in plain English - a science for non-scientists style - and gives examples in the form of thought exercises to illustrate concepts such as the tl3&