Section 34 — 'Science Disproves Christianity'

Modern science was largely developed by Christians working within a Christian intellectual framework. Science rests on assumptions Christianity provides: the universe is rational and ordered, human minds can perceive that order, mathematical relationships describe physical reality, the same laws apply everywhere. Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Mendel — not doing science despite their Christianity but because of it.

Science cannot address: why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe began with precisely calibrated constants that permit life (the fine-tuning problem), where consciousness comes from, what moral obligations exist and why, whether life has meaning, what happened before the Big Bang. These are exactly the questions Christianity addresses.

Section 35 — 'All Religions Lead to the Same God'

Consider what the religions actually say: Christianity — God is three persons, Jesus is God incarnate, salvation by grace through faith. Islam — God is absolutely one, Jesus was not God, salvation by deeds. Buddhism (traditional) — no personal God, salvation from the cessation of desire. Hinduism — many gods or impersonal Absolute, individual existence ultimately an illusion. These are not different descriptions of the same thing. They are direct, mutually exclusive contradictions. The pluralist who says all religions lead to the same God is saying none of the religions mean what they say they mean — a form of condescension dressed as tolerance.

Section 36 — 'God Would Not Become a Man — It Diminishes Him'

Two conceptions of greatness: (1) Greatness defined by distance — the greater the being, the more elevated above the ordinary. (2) Greatness defined by what a being can do without ceasing to be what it is. A God who can enter human experience without ceasing to be God demonstrates a more extraordinary capacity than a God who can only remain at a transcendent distance. The capacity to stoop without ceasing to be sovereign is not weakness. It is the most extraordinary kind of strength.

✖ Muslim Response: A God who becomes a baby, who can be killed — this is not the God of the universe.

✔ How to respond: A God who is omnipotent should be able to become human if He chooses to, without ceasing to be God. The question is not whether God can do this — omnipotence implies He can — but whether He did. A God who cannot choose to enter creation is not more powerful than a God who can. He is less powerful.