Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

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G’s personal story may be inspiring for some and useful for Christians wondering how to fit science and faith together. Guillen be your guide as he brilliantly argues for a large and enlightened worldview consistent with both God and modern science.

The same excerpt is also published in Hackernoon on Medium but I did not have editing access and wanted to change the picture, so here it is again. There (almost annoyingly) was a sense of profound logic that I could not ignore, though, about Christianity that I felt Christians were not as interested in. The one he imagines to be real and will fabricate and point to any amount of evidence he can to prove it.It allows people to see their own ‘issue’ within the context of a broader, whole-systems perspective that includes multiple ‘issues’.

Instead, he spends time poking holes in science, not to tear it down but to say, essentially, “These are some things that we can’t explain (or prove. It makes possible, as one paper on the subject has it, “the commitment of resources to an activity where the outcome depends upon the co-operative behaviour of others”. Morris begins his first chapter with a quotation from Sontag regarding Fenton’s photograph(s) The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855). Such places are infertile ground for long-run investment, the gains from which could be grabbed by rivals or stolen by government.For the first several chapters, the author talks about his own life journey and how he eventually moved toward faith in God. The author delves into the parallels between belief in science and belief in Christianity, showing how both belief systems provide similar answers to certain fundamental questions. I also learned that galaxies spin much faster than they should, in apparent violation of the Virial Theorem. Or is it possible that reality can be perceived most clearly with the eyes of faith--and that truth is bigger than proof? He tracks down her sources, interviews museum curators, skirts complex issues like the relation of the image to the caption, travels to the Crimea and photographs the site as it currently exists (eerily unchanged), and enlists forensic photography experts to attest to the photographs’ veracity and to resolve the discrepancy over the sequence.