Michael Guillen - Amazing Truths: How Science and the Bible Agree

The lie that faith and science are enemies is never more in danger than when the affable, wonderfully understandable, and winsomely brilliant Dr. Michael Guillen is on the case. If wed had him as our physics teacher, most of us would be physicists today! Q.E.D.

E RIC M ETAXAS , New York Times bestselling author of Miracles and host of the nationally syndicated The Eric Metaxas Show

Michael Guillen has always had a unique ability to make fascinating science topics understandable and relevant to peoples lives. Amazing Truths is proof of that.

J OAN L UNDEN

As a gifted communicator, Michael Guillen makes science easy to understand. He has done it again with his latest explanations of how the Bible and science complement each other. In a profound and beautiful way he helps us realize that science does not contradict the Bible but in fact supports it. A summer must read for all high school grads going to college.

D R . R OBERT A. S CHULLER

Michael Guillen bridges the seeming gap between science and faith better than anyone I know.

C AL T HOMAS , Syndicated and USA Today columnist/Fox News contributor

An entire generation is being swept up in a false narrative that the Bible and science are incompatible. Too many today, both young and old, believe that faith in the Bible has been discredited by the new religion of science. In Amazing Truths, Dr. Michael Guillen dismantles those myths, presenting hard evidence and sound reason to cause skeptics to reevaluate their own belief system and believers to have renewed confidence in the Bible.

C URTIS V. H AIL , President & CEO, e3 Partners / I Am Second

Here is a truly unusual autobiography: an amazing blend of up-to-date science and the world in which we exist as conscious spiritual beings.

O WEN G INGERICH , Harvard University professor emeritus and author of Gods Planet

Must science and faith be at war? No, says physicist Michael Guillen in this delightfully readable yet thoroughly researched book. Whether you are a believer or a doubter, youll be astonished by Amazing Truths.

H ATTIE K AUFFMAN , Former correspondent of ABC and CBS News and author of Falling Into Place

The title of this book says it all: Michael Guillen illustrates how science and the Bible are partners in revealing amazing truths about lifeand life eternal.

S PENCER C HRISTIAN , Weather forecaster/interviewer/host for KGO-TVformerly at Good Morning America

For many people today, even self-described Christians, science has replaced the Bible as the ultimate authority in their lives. In Amazing Truths, Michael Guillen explains brilliantly why that secular view is unfounded and offers one that is better informed intellectually and spiritually.

R EV . D R . G REG H UGHES , Senior Pastor, Malibu Presbyterian Church

Michael is one of the most original thinkers Ive ever known. He lives where the creative meets the intellect. I can think of no one more qualified to write this book!

D AVE A LAN J OHNSON , Writer/producer/ director (Doc, Sue Thomas FBEye, October Baby, Moms Night Out, Coffee Shop, Woodlawn)

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Amazing Truths

Copyright 2015 by Michael A. Guillen, PhD

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Guillen, Michael.

Amazing truths : how science and the Bible agree / Michael Guillen, PhD.

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For my grandparents:

the Reverend Dr. Miguel and Delia Guilln

the Reverend Guadalupe and Michaela Armendariz

And for my mother-in-law:

Barbara Aragon

Men and women

of enormous faith and intelligence

who have my undying respect

with love and gratitude

ABOVE ALL, I THANK GOD for prompting me to put into words the life-changing insights he has given me during my time as a physicist and, more recently, a Christian. And for the precious gifts, rare opportunities, and invaluable experiences he has granted to me over the years. Soli Deo gloria to him alone be the glory!

I wish to thank my wife, Laurel, who encouraged me to write this book and who read the first draft of each chapter and reviewed carefully the final manuscript, never failing to counsel me wisely on how to make it better. She lovingly put up with my spending countless hours, day and night, holed up in my man cave merrily writing away.

Also, heartfelt thanks to my manager, Burton Taylor, who urged me early on to write this book, even when I wasnt feeling it. His persistence and encouragement ultimately helped win the day.

To Wes Yoder, my literary agent and good friend, I wish to say, Thank you, brother. Your support of this project not only helped it come about but filled me with optimism about its ultimate success.

Thank you to two distinguished friends for their invaluable comments: Dr. Denis Alexander, a molecular biologist and emeritus director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St. Edmunds College in Cambridge, England, and the Reverend Dr. Emmanuel Haqq, a theoretical physicist and the senior pastor of Christ Community Church in Belchertown, Massachusetts.