GOD AND COSMOS
A Christian View of Time, Space and the Universe
By John Byl
The Banner of Truth Trust
xii + 243 pages
ISBN 0 85151 800 1
This book is something of a curate's egg. John Byl, a Professor of Mathematics has produced an up-to-date account of recent thinking in cosmology. He seeks to move from a critique of the dominant big bang cosmology to rehabilitate a set of ideas which are, to say the least, controversial.
Chief among these are his arguments that a biblical cosmology must include a form of the geocentric (earth-centred) view of the universe, and the idea that God has created a young universe (aged 6,000 years old) which nevertheless contains light from stars which deceptively appear to be many millions of years old. It would be worrying indeed if a 'Christian view' of the cosmos required such outlandish ideas, and the reader might profitably ask if Byl should not have used the same critical faculties which he brings to bear in his discussion of cosmological science when he is working out his theological views.
