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Many people today believe that Christianity will not stand up to a scientific or intellectual investigation, and that science has all the answers. Such an attitude shows an ignorance of the wealth of available philosophical arguments and scientific information that Dr Seber taps into in this book. Initially he shows that mathematics and science are limited in what they can prove in spite of modern advances. He then summarises his material using basic questions as eleven chapter headings: What Do Science and Mathematics Prove? Is There a God? Is There a Spiritual Dimension? Do We Have Free Will? Is the Bible Reliable? Who is Jesus? Do Miracles Occur? Why Does God Allow Suffering and Evil? Is Christianity a Blessing or a Curse to Society? What About Evolution? How Do We Get to Know God? The reader may have other questions and a number are considered within each chapter, such as problems with philosophical materialism and atheism. He draws his material from many sources, including statistics, physics, cosmology, genetics, philosophy, history, biochemistry, theology, psychology, archaeology and biology. Comparatively new subjects like epigenetics, chaos theory and quantum mechanics, that many people are not aware of, are brought into the picture. These topics change our thinking about reality.

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This is a dangerous book for atheists and agnostics. The assembling of so much evidence might start to convince them that Christianity is not just blind faith, but a religion that has clear proof available. Much unique data is presented and the arguments from mathematics and physics are particularly convincing. For Christians, the book is a very helpful compendium of data, will strengthen their faith, and give arguments pertinent to their dialogue with others. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GRAEME WOODFIELD, Faculty of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland MB., ChB (NZ), FRCPE, FRCPA, PhD (Edin) Written in a clear and lucid style, devoid of technical philosophical terminology, Seber's work is easy to follow, is compelling reading, and aims to be used widely. Written by one who is both a mathematician / statistician and Christian counsellor, this work offers many unique insights. MYK HABETS, Head of Carey Graduate School, Carey Baptist College, Auckland Author, Theology in Transposition: A Constructive Appraisal of T.F. Torrance George Seber is a superb synthesiser of literature and ideas. He makes challenging arguments accessible and he gets you there fast... Seber writes concisely and comprehensively. In this book, as with all of Seber's books, you are efficiently introduced to all the big ideas and arguments that really matter. CHRISTOPHER WILD, Professor, coauthor of Chance Encounters and Nonlinear Regression

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"GEORGE A.F. SEBER is an Emeritus Professor of Statistics and held the foundation Chair in Statistics at Auckland University for several decades. He has a PhD in statistics and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society NZ in 1997. In 1999 he was awarded the society's Hector Medal in Information Science. In his later years he trained as a counsellor at Laidlaw College to obtain a Diploma in Counselling from Laidlaw College and has been counselling for 17 years. He is also qualified as a supervisor of counselors and a member of the Christian Counsellors Association (NZCA). George is the author or co-author of 17 mathematical statistics books (mainly published with Wiley and Springer) with one translated into Chinese and Russian, and another into Portuguese. He also has an extensive 638 page counseling book entitled ""Counseling Issues: A handbook for Counselors and Psychotherapists (self-published), a Christian apologetics book entitled ""Can We Believe It?: Evidence for Christianity"", and a short booklet entitled ""Coping with Dying: Death of a Loved One"". He has been a member and musician at Windsor Park Baptist Church for many years, and he and his wife ran a divorce recovery programme called New Start there for several years. Currently he is involved there as a regular speaker with an apologetics programme called Reasons for Faith."

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