How to Know God Exists: Scientific Proof of God

This book has evolved from a long line of apologetics books. When reading this book, I was struck by the similarity with "The Bible The Word of God" by Frank Bettex written in 1904. Then again why should I be surprised, doesn't a 1904 car bear some similarity to a 2010 car? One of the contentions of this book is that a designer would create things from extant designs rather that reinventing things constantly. A monkey was not our ancestor, but a parallel analog made from the same materials and design. We are treated to many design/designer arguments in this easy to read book... Aquinas' ontological proofs for the existence of God. Comfort is St Thomas Aquinas reborn in the twenty first century. Like the Bettex book, Comfort goes into scriptural proof of prophecy fulfilled and addresses the social and historical attacks on the faith. One insight unique to this book is the observation about all the sub systems that go into enabling eyesight. These sight sub systems had to evolve with knowledge of the future function of the other systems- the eye, the cortex, and the optic nerve together with forty other components that supplied no advantage to the whole until networked. The book is deceptively simple because it constantly hints at greater complexity which can be easily read into by the reader. The somewhat corny story about the critics of the light bulb and Edison on page 103 "Three Wise Fools" has profound insights on epistemology contained in it. The book like everything else in this universe of entropy is flawed... Comfort's discussion of slavery is curiously idiotic. How can anybody call the slavery of the ancient world better than America's sad experience with the "peculiar institution?" Has Comfort ever heard of the revolt of Spartacus in Rome? A revolt solved with thousands of roadside crucifixions. The Assyrian treatment of prisoners of war or Biblical enslavement scenes are curiously absent here. Zedekiah's story in Jer 52:9-11 is a disturbing biblical enslavement tale. Were ancient slaves really treated "more like modern servants?" page 143 Read your Bible Ray...steer clear of assumptions. The book is filled with some phony populism. The variety which makes Comfort look patronizing to the reader " because you couldn't believe that a klutz like me could write a book"...two paragraphs later a contradiction-"so why did I (an intelligent clear thinking human being)"...etc. pp 175-176. These self deprecating remarks, liberally sprinkled throughout the book, are trite and tiring. The book itself should be viewed as a catalyst for witness and deeper inquiry for both sides in the culture wars. Pathway to the stars The Bible The Word of God Jesus: Our Destiny

This is a good book. My only complaint is that the author has used a lot of the material in some of his other books, so there wasn't much in the way of new evidence for the existence of God. Aside from that, the book is very well written and worth reading.

Of course those of us who walk in the Spirit KNOW GOD EXISTS. This is a great tool to help witness to the unbeliever. It really makes perfect sense, but gives insight to those who don't know what to say when witnessing to others.

Excellent book. I encourage you to be reasonable and have a facts-based faith. We Christians don't have a blind faith!

This is probably one of the best books that I have read up to date. Comfort gives detailed proof of how we KNOW God exists and points out the many flaws of evolution. I highly reccomend this book to anyone searching for an answer to how the creation of the world and all of it's inhabitants came into being.