James Emery White - Christianity for People Who Arent Christians: Uncommon Answers to Common Questions

Introduction

. Os Guinness, In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt and How to Resolve It (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1976), 2425.

. There are many biographies available on Lewis, including Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography , rev. ed. (New York: Harvest, 1994); Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (New York: Harper, 2005); David C. Downing, The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewiss Journey to Faith (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002); George Sayer, Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times (New York: Harper & Row, 1988); Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings (New York: Ballantine, 1978); and Lewiss own spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy (New York: Harvest, 1955).

. Lewis, Surprised by Joy , 22829.

. I caution that these were tales told to me while in Oxford by those who claimed to have known and interacted with Lewis. But from all that I know and have read, I would tend to lean on the side of their truth. For example, when the Daily Telegraph referred to Lewis as an ascetic, Tolkien wrote to his son, Ascetic Mr. Lewis!!! I ask you! He put away three pints in a very short session we had this morning, and said he was going short for Lent. Jacobs, Narnian , 190.

. Adapted from Carpenter, The Inklings , 4548, as well as my own journeys to Oxford and dialogues with Oxford folk.

Chapter 1 The God Who Is There... or Not

. When Americans Say They Believe in God, What Do They Mean? Pew Research Center, April 25, 2018, http://www.pewforum.org/2018/04/25/when-americans-say-they-believe-in-god-what-do-they-mean/.

. Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980), 4.

. As noted by Fred Heeren in Show Me God: What the Message from Space Is Telling Us About God (Wheeling, IL: Searchlight Publications, 1995), 139. Smoots quote was cited by Milton Rothman, What Went Before? Free Inquiry 13, no. 1 (Winter 1992/93): 12.

. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers , 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 14.

. Jastrow, God and the Astronomers , 107.

. On this, see Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017), 26.

. Plato believed that the order of the motion of stars... [would] lead men to believe in the gods ( Laws 12.966e).

. Top 10 Incredibly Advanced Fighter Jets in 2017, AviationCV.com, May 19, 2017, https://www.aviationcv.com/aviation-blog/2017/top-10-fighter-jets-world-2017.

. Tyson, Astrophysics, 78.

. Tyson, Astrophysics , 176.

. Tyson, Astrophysics , 30.

. As cited by Luis Palau, God Is Relevant (New York: Doubleday, 1997), 32.

. Paul Davies, The Mind of God (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 232. Even if life on another planet, such as Mars, is verified, the miraculous origin of life is not diminished, for nowhere does the Bible intimate that God created life on this planet alone.

. Stephen Hawking, quoted by John Boslough, Masters of TimeCosmology at the End of Innocence (New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992), 55.

. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam Books, 1988), 127.

. On this, see George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism 18701925 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), particularly 18488.

. Unknown origin, but adapted from John Ortbergs contribution to How I Changed My Mind about Evolution , ed. Kathryn Applegate and J. B. Stump (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2016), 92.

. Nadia Whitehead, Origins Opinion Surveys Evolve from How to Who, Christianity Today , February 12, 2019, https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/january-web-only/christian-origins-surveys-evolve-from-how-to-who.html.