The First Scientific Proof of God: Reveals God's Intelligent Design and a Modern Creation Theory

by George D. Shollenberger

Book Overview

The book has six parts. Part I presents the first scientific proof of God. This proof is followed by a history of the development of knowledge through the 20th century. Major changes are suggested to some sciences. In Chapter 5, two basic sciences are identified. They are the physical sciences and life sciences. These sciences are aligned to the Laws of Nature and Laws of Nature's God. These two laws are found in the US Declaration of Independence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1425932800
• ISBN13: 9781425932800
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

His message is accurate

Shollenberger (page 69) summarizes his proof: "In my proof of God`s existence, I use the finitude of any thing in the universe. Then, I negate finite to produce not-finite, which is an attribute of God. Today, not-finite is expressed as infinite. If finite is possitive, infinite is not a reality unless it is an attribute of a thing. This thing is God." Here is what Shollenberger is saying: What emerged from the apparent singularity (the "big bang," or our birth) brought with it the unfolding of vast amounts of plurality. One may agree with Shollenberger that the vast plurality is left unexplained by the initial singularity so caricatured as something finite. The vast plurality shows signs of orderliness, indicative of a unifying presence (even infinite presence). The Many are found connected to the One, but this is now at the level of "number-symbols" or "word-symbols" that Shollenberger writes about. In the beginning was the word, and the word has become flesh! The issues of evolution, and God`s creation, are apparent in our ability to understand and express words. Shollenberger is keen to pick up on this connection. He tells us that a 1920 linguistic discovery says that sense-data are primarily symbolic. Shollenberger (page 8) writes, "the meaning of symbols must be precise to express truths." He (page 39) writes, "the significance of symbols is that reality can be conceived by us only imperfectly.... When one uses symbols, facts are never theory neutral. This is why a newspaper reporter cannot report pure facts. The facts in a news report are never independent of the theories and beliefs of the reporter." Sense-data can only be subjected to interpretation, and to sense something involves the mystery of awareness and this synthesis cannot be undone. Shollenberger`s investigation is now at the level of what Charles S. Peirce called "semiotics." This investigation enters philosophy, and is at the level of what Kant called "synthesis," and what Hegel called "dialectic." This is again the One and Many of Plato and Plotinus. No one has been able to explain away the unifying presence, despite the assertions of scientism that are presented unconvincingly. The mystery of awareness never goes away, even when we are mistaken. Shollenberger rightly concludes that the many finite expressions of plurality are connected to the infinite, and this is his proof of God. This is a philosophic proof, but is it a scientific proof? Science has drifted into philosophy, and it finds itself unable to stay as a pure activity as Popper demanded. And so Shollenberger`s proof can be seen as scientific in that all evidence must make sense within the unifying presence, and because science necessarily drifts into philosophy for big questions about what is beyond caricature (infinite). When science is limited to empiricism and existentialism, science can only test theories that permit predictions (that necessarily make a caricature of their subject). The caricature-giver