God. The science. Tests (tightrope walker, 2023) is a book written by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies, but in collaboration with various scientists and with a prologue by the Spanish essayist Elvira Roca Barea (Imperiophobia and black legend) and Robert W. Wilson, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. In France it has become an editorial phenomenon, while it has also been the subject of criticism for the controversial nature of the topic.
This recently released book promises to be “the dawn of a revolution,” as the same subtitle indicates. Going back in time, and beyond the last centuries in which the existence of God has been denied, the authors They appeal to the complexity of life and the infinite essence of the universe to point out, with scientific facts, that, indeed, God exists..
God. The science. The tests: the dawn of a revolution
Put beliefs into play
After they have made us believe that God does not exist and many have lost their faith, these two authors arrive to turn the beliefs of everything and everyone upside down. They make a scientific story, a review of the advances that have turned Western society into a group that disbelieves and is attached to technological progress.. And they come to the conclusion that despite all these advances achieved by man, after all those theories that seemed to explain everything, such as the discoveries made by Copernicus, Galileo, Newton or Darwin, The true cause of the origin of the universe and life can only be the work of a superior being.. They also question the current of materialism devised by Marx, a pragmatic current that, therefore, has refuted the existence of that maximum and creative entity.
It seems difficult to think that after having achieved a limited understanding of phenomena such as quantum physics or the extension of the universe, one can conclude that there is nothing further up there. Different specialists from different branches testify with rigorous evidence about the authentic possibility that God exists., beyond questions of faith, of believing or not believing. All these experts give evidence that materialism, like many other philosophical currents, are nothing more than presumptions that have been chosen to accept as true.
Physicists, philosophers, historians, biologists, theologians, doctors, biologists and geneticists and other researchers participate in the work of Bolloré and Bonnassies and leave the door open to the possibility that the creator of the universe is a supreme being. They try to make something intelligible that is difficult for most to explain or understand.. They do this so that the reader can decide critically what to believe.
Combining science and religion
In any case, the controversy is served, of course. It is not common for science to try to explain a spiritual phenomenon., a question of faith, what God is like. And beyond this, to prove his existence. But Bolloré and Bonnassies do it and with personalities from various scientific fields who support all this work.
Through skepticism and the latest scientific advances, this work wants to achieve the opposite: to scientifically demonstrate that God exists and that He is the Creator. Thanks to the book you can understand how science and faith should not be at odds.. The existence of God and the material world that surrounds us should not be understood in absolute terms either. Many philosophers have thought about this before. Thinkers who were not theologians, but who were already interested in fitting in all the pieces.
Bolloré and Bonnassies in this book focus largely on the creation of the universe. In that which gave rise to the complex physical system about which almost nothing is known and which resulted in an unexplored space in which we all live at some point. They want to look for the beginning of everything with which they can unite science and religion. And let one explain to the other.
Conclusion
God. Science and evidence It is a book that clearly explains the certainty that God exists through scientific facts. The authors try to link experience with religion because they affirm that, more than possible, it is necessary for both to explain the origin of the universe. This part is the one they focus on the most; at the beginning of the cosmos and what gave rise to life and the technological progress of which man is the promoter. Demonstrating that the universe had to begin at one point, and describing and analyzing the many scientific theories developed throughout human history, return to square one. And they do it from science, supported by a list of eminent researchers, speaking of faith, to reach the conclusion that God exists.
About the authors
Olivier Bonnassies (1966) and Michel-Yves Bolloré (1945) are engineers by profession and both have displayed their enormous interest in science in this book. In it they have had the help of twenty researchers and the cooperation of a Nobel Prize winner, such as Robert W. Wilson.
Bolloré is specialized in computer science, has a master's degree in science and a doctorate in business management. Throughout his life he has been dedicated to the industrial sector. For his part, Bonnassies is also an engineer and theologian; His work has been oriented on many occasions to the logical analysis of religion.