GOD, THE BIG BANG AND BUNSEN-BURNING ISSUES
By Nigel Bovey
Authentic Media. 204 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978-1-85078-806-5
Jamie Whyte, in a recent Opinion article in The Times (September 16), wrote: ‘Many atheists behold the persistence of religion in the West with something close to incredulity. How can it be, they lament, that, despite the absence of any evidence for the central tenets of Christianity, despite the enormous progress of science in explaining the origins of the earth and its inhabitants, so many people continue to believe pre-Enlightenment gobbledegook?’ He added: ‘The persistence of religious profession is irritating. It is a sign of something intellectually unserious in the professor’.
Well, Mr. Whyte, here are 15 leading, intellectually serious scientists (physicists, a mathematician, biological and biomedical scientists) who have convictions about both science and the Christian faith.