Not a Chance: God, Science, and the Revolt against Reason

  • Year 1994
  • Type Book
  • Genre science and faith
  • Tradition Reformed
  • Original language English

For For readers interested in the philosophy of science and the idea of chance as a cause; not for those wanting a survey of creation and evolution debates.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5 important
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

A philosophical argument that chance can cause nothing, aimed at modern cosmology's language.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 5 of 5
  • Scriptural 1 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 2 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Published by Baker in 1994; an expanded edition with Keith Mathison appeared in 2014. Sproul argues that 'chance' cannot be a cause of anything, since it has no power of its own, and exposes what he calls the irrationalism in some modern scientific writing about the origin of the universe.

Catalog IDW.JVBNN9.5

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