As a scientist, university professor, and Christian, I have often been grilled by my colleagues and students about how I reconciled science with my faith. Questions like, "How can you prove the miracles of the Bible," have a simple answer: "I can't." However, the methods used by historians investigating the New Testament documents are the same ones used in science and courts of law. In this book, I have tried to illustrate how using the basic principle of inference to the best explanation can be used to answer the questions, "Is there a God and is Christianity true?" in a manner that preserves the integrity of scientific and Christian belief.Knowing that students would rather catch a couple of hours of sleep rather than wade through a voluminous treatise on the subject, I have tried to present a concise recounting my own search for God. I encourage the reader to investigate the subject of God with the same rigor that a scientist would use to perform his or her experimental investigations. If you do, I think you'll be as surprised as I was by the results.
