Since the Beginning of time man has challenged God’s supremacy, striving to dethrone God and reinterpret the universe according to his own standards and purposes. In response God, who is determined to destroy the wisdom of the wordly wise and to unmask it for the foolishness that it really is, issues his own challenge to sinful man. Arrogantly, modern scientific man takes up that divine challenge, arming himself with scientific knowledge and technological power. Indeed, man has convinced himself that this rational wisdom has made foolish the wisdom of Scripture, with its tall tales of a personal God, of life after death, and of heaven and hell. ‘Such notions’, Einstein declared, ‘are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.’
John byl argues that the Christian worldview provides the only foundation for logic, mathematics, science and morality. The Divine Challenge aims to substantiate this bold claim. Byl shows the failure of today’s predominant philosophies to provide a coherent worldview that can yield a plausible account of the various aspects of life as we experience it. Only a Christian worldview, squarely based on the truth of the Bible and the comprehensive sovereignty of God, can give our lives coherence, meaning, purpose and hope.
Chapter Titles
1. The Challenge Framed
2. World view Wars
3. Naturalism
4. Mysteries of Matter
5. Chance, Cause and Chaos
6. From Matter to Mind
7. From Mind to Math
8. Mysteries of Mathematics
9. Beyond Naturalism
10. The Christian Worldview
11. God and the Physical World
12. Free Will and Responsibility
13. Body and Soul
14. A Christian View of Mathematics
15. The Challenge Settled
