Pacific Book Review

The book presents a point rebuttal of Frances Collins bestselling The Language of God, Arguing that there is no scientifically acceptable evidence to support belief in a personal God and much that discredits it.  Written without hostility but with clarity for the nonscientist, the book provides natural explanations for the big bang atrophic coincidences and human morality.  It demonstrates the unreliability of the Bible and the impossibility of reconciling evil and suffering with a good and just God.

-Do moral behavior, altruism, and similar moral standards across cultures indicate that humans are somehow in touch with a divine lawgiver, as Collins argues? Cunningham cites data from behavioral genetics that suggest a purely naturalistic explanation for morality. 

-The existence of evil, both natural and human-caused, has always been a major stumbling block for religious apologists. Cunningham points out how Collins fails to adequately address this issue and the difficulty of reconciling belief in a good God with the existence of evil.

-Collins refers to the origin of the universe and anthropic coincidences as evidence of God as creator of all of reality. By contrast, Cunningham notes that there are naturalistic interpretations for the big bang and the fine-tuning of the universe, which adequately explain this evidence.