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The work aims to explain how the astronomical discoveries of the 20th century have again provided evidence of the existence of a supreme intelligence.
A book that tries to prove the existence of God from the current state of science, and in particular the observation of the Universe, has become a bestseller in France.
Scientists, however, are skeptical of this thick 600-page volume, God, science, evidence (God, science, evidence), co-written by an engineer, Michel-Yves Bolloré, brother of an industrial tycoon, and a consultant and businessman with a Theology license, Olivier Bonnassies.
Three months after its appearance, the book has sold more than 100,000 copies.
Michel-Yves Bolloré is a practicing Catholic and the brother of Vincent Bolloré, one of the most powerful French industrialists.
The co-author assured the AFP who worked three years ina book that did not exist until now”.
The work aims to explain “in an accessible way” how the astronomical discoveries of the 20th century have again provided evidence of the existence of a supreme intelligence, which orchestrated everything.
For nearly four centuries, with the arrival of Galileo, and then Newton and Darwin, “science demonstrated that a Creator was not necessary to explain the Universe. To the point that at the beginning of the 20th century materialism triumphed”.
But now society is experiencing a great “pendulum” movement, with the discovery of the Big Bang, the expansion of the Universe, its thermal death… Theories that, according to Michel-Yves Bolloré, question the thesis of an immutable Universe, since that “has a beginning and an end.”
The authors therefore conclude the existence of a “Supreme Creator” that gave the first impulse.
“It is the notion of evidence that causes controversy,” admits Thierry Magnin, a physicist and priest. “We have the right to think that there is a ‘great watchmaker’ but we do not have the right to say that it is in itself a ‘proof’”, he explained to the AFP. “Articulating science and religion is not the same as confusing them.”
“To claim that the existence of God can be scientifically proven is to be somewhat naive” adds the philosopher of science Etienne Klein, in the weekly L’Express.
In the opinion of the theologian and physicist François Euvé, the book works because it responds to “a need for points of reference, in a period of uncertainty about the future of the world.” In his opinion, “It is not incumbent” on science to respond to this need for certainty.
The second part of the book is dedicated to the traditional proofs of monotheistic religions: the Bible, the notion of the chosen people of the Jews, miracles such as that of Fatima.
American Nobel Laureate in Physics Robert Wilson signs the book’s preface, something that according to the weekly L’ExpressI wouldn’t have done if I had read that second part.
“I don’t have any written evidence to show that (Wilson) regrets it,” Bolloré replies. (I)
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