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The Works of His Hands

A Scientist's Journey from Atheism to Faith

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The Works of His Hands

Written by: Sy Garte, Alister McGrath - foreword
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Raised in a militant atheist family, Sy Garte fell in love with the factual world of science. He became a respected research biochemist with an anti-theistic worldview to bolster his work—and he had no intention of seeking a God he didn't believe in. That is, until the very science he loved led him to question the validity of an atheistic worldview. His journey to answer the questions that confronted him drew him into becoming a fully committed Christian, determined to show others the truth: modern science doesn't contradict God at all but instead supports Christianity.

In the first half of the book, Sy begins with how his experiences and quest for knowledge as a student and early in his career brought him to question his materialist assumptions. He goes on to reveal how lessons from physics, biology, and human nature-all presented for lay audiences to easily understand-actually argue for belief in God. In the second half of the book, Sy looks at the arguments often presented against God in academic and scientific settings and explains the false foundations on which they rest.

For those who have been told that the realities of science call for a rejection of God-but can't quite get rid of the feeling that this shouldn't be true-The Works of His Hands is an ideal reminder that the two don't have to be bitter enemies.

©2019 Sy Garte (P)2022 eChristian
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Excellent overview of the limitations of science

This book is an excellent review of what we cannot know from our current scientific perspective. It is a little too definitive and assumes that the science we know today is 100 percent factual, without leaving the door open to the fact that it is still limited by our human perspective, and we may develop new perspectives that better fit the world as we perceive it. The autyhor then unfortunately switches to a dogmatic Christian perspective, which I believe is not intentional but comes through as being way too preachy. He assumes, as is often the case, that Christianity is the only religion that can support science. He dismisses eastern religions, without giving any context other than they supposedly have more than one god (untrue), and then gets tripped up by the trinity in Christianity. The message would have been much stronger if he refrained from pushing his faith as the only answer, and left it as a possibility. He correctly points out humanity is unique, but avoids the multiplicity of religions and belief systems that humanity follows, promoting only his version of christening. Overall I liked the book.

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