October 2025
The Evening Standard highlights a French book arguing there is scientific evidence for God. The book, which has become a bestseller, is being released in the UK and the US.
SCREEN SHOT The Evening Standard
The chasm between science and religion may be closing in mainstream literature, specifically when it comes to the existence of God, hinted a recent article in The Evening Standard. “God is big business in the publishing world”, wrote reporter Claudia Cockerell.
A slew of recent books argue that the idea of a creator God is backed up by science, she writes. One prominent example is Stephen C. Meyer’s 2021 book, “Return of the God Hypothesis“. Now, a book with the same message by two French engineers, Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies, has become a bestseller.
The original edition of “God: The Science, The Evidence” has sold over 400,000 copies worldwide, and it is now being published in English.
Bolloré told Cockerell that he and Bonnassies thought there was a gap in the market for “a book that encompassed ‘science, philosophy, history and enigmas’ to argue for the existence of God”.
The book has a Christian perspective as both authors are Catholic.
Per the Standard article, the authors elaborate on three common, perceived pieces of scientific evidence for the existence of a creator God: The Big Bang, the complexity of life and the ‘fine-tuning’ of the universe.
The Big Bang theory posits that space, time and matter emerged from one point, a singularity. This begs the question who, or what, was responsible, and what was before (if there could be a ‘before’ when there was no time).
“Is not the existence of an immaterial creator god located outside space and time the most natural explanation?” Bolloré and Bonnassies ask. The book contends that the Big Bang theory is not compatible with a materialist worldview, wrote Cockerell.
As for life’s complexity, the authors opine that the DNA structure is so complicated that it must have been designed by an intelligent creator. As for the ‘fine-tuning’, they point out that if any of the physical constants of the universe were even slightly different, life as we know it would not exist.
Both of the latter arguments are reminiscent of a theory that was much discussed in the early 2000s), Intelligent Design (ID).
The authors seem to feel that scientists have been rather dishonest in devoting so much effort to searching for extraterrestrial intelligence and so little to exploring the hypothesis of a creator-god. But they also seem hopeful that change is under way. According to the book, “Science appears to have become God’s ally,” – depending on who you ask, the reporter states.
Another excellent example of a tentative normalisation of the cohabitation of science and spirituality in the mainstream is Dan Brown’s new thriller, “The Secret of Secrets”, which is purported to bring post-material theories on consciousness into the mainstream.
Written by Anders Bolling
Edited by Liza Horan
