New Proofs for the Existence of God

An extraordinary book drawing on contemporary developments in physics and philosophy and written as an antidote to recent books championing agnosticism or atheism. The author claims that these books tend to ignore the evidence for theism that has emerged from physics and philosophy over the last 40 years. This book seeks to plug this gap, and does so with astonishing erudition and scholarship. For example, two principal themes are the high improbability of an anthropic universe and the status of an initial singularity. The eight chapters that follow provide a thorough account of the implications of Big Bang cosmology and offer a number of new arguments for the existence of God. This is followed by a consideration of the methodological impossibility of disproving God and a discussion of the ontological status of love, the good and the beautiful. Towards the end of the book, the author introduces his five yearnings for the ultimate, building on the insights of the previous chapter. This tour de force is aimed principally at scholars, but demonstrates the sophistication and plausibility of new theistic arguments.