This is why I am a Christian. Thank you Dr. Wolfe!!

ROBERT WOLFE'S new book tells the story of an extraordinary journey to find God and why the Christian faith has survived.

A devout atheist and writer of popular science books, he started his own magazine, The Scientific Atheist, and in 1997 sponsored the publication of A Brief History of Time. This best-seller argued that the Earth is not only old and did not originate from a singular point in time but is actually the result of innumerable past collisions between atoms and space-time. This was seen as a bold statement, provoking fierce debate. It earned a rebuke from the Christian scientific community, which did not consider atheists' claims in any sense "theistic," but rather "agnostic," and in some quarters even more controversial.

To this day Wolff says the debate he provoked has not subsided. "The world has changed more in the last 10 years than in the previous 500," he says. "We now have a generation whose whole notion of the world being created by God has just exploded in their face," Wolff says.

There are now millions of people who have not only rejected the Christian faith but also "have very strong feelings of skepticism on many other points of science," he says. "Even as recently as 20 years ago, if someone brought up a scientific issue, they were supposed to say, 'Well, it's not settled.' But today it's absolutely clear, the evidence is conclusive."

Wolff points to Darwin: The Origin of Species, now in its third printing, with an introduction to explain the controversy surrounding Darwin's theory, as among the most influential science books of the 20th century. Published in 1871, it has sold 250,000 copies, Wolff says. "It was a book that had to be defended as if it mattered."

Wolff recently published What is God? (Random House, 2014). He argues that Christianity's survival is due less to intellectual prowess than a cultural phenomenon. "It's not due to some secret knowledge or something God knew. It's because Christianity is part of a very powerful and successful and broad coalition in the world right now," Wolff says. "It was about being good, being moral, being ethical."


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