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A Scientific Approach to Christianity

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This is not "Dr" Faid's first effort. Read his Wikipedia entry: "In 1993, Faid was awarded the Ig Nobel prize for Mathematics for calculating the exact odds that Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist, based on his 1988 book Gorbachev! Has the Real Antichrist Come?"
"I am absolutely serious about this," Faid was quoted as saying when awarded the Ig Nobel prize, "and I am surprised that people would make a joke of it. I have shown from the history of the 'kings' (general secretaries) in the Soviet Union and from the Book of Revelations [sic] that there is an 860,609,175,188, 282,100 to 1 chance that Gorbachev is the Antichrist who will return to power by overthrowing Yeltsin and who will then overwhelm the West by violence." [1] His prediction was based on numerology involving the spelling of Gorbachev's name in several languages and combinations of the Number of the Beast, 666, with its opposite 888, the Number of Jesus."
This is Mr Faid's "science." If you are looking for "scientific" reasons, to believe, you just don't have enough faith. It would be easy to laugh this book off Amazon, but "Dr." Grant Jeffries and other "evangelicals" cite this comic book as some sort of reason to believe. It isn't.

This is a continuation of his first book and delves into some of the less significant mysteries. They will continue to be 'mysteries', but Faid explains one way in which nature could make the various mysteries happen. I enjoyed his explanations of the individual mysteries from a biblical perspective, then his relating it to the natural world. It helped me to better accept the biblical mysteries, knowing that his explanation is only one of the possible explanations. I didn't think it was mindless or senseless at all. Course, some of us don't even think Jesus is God. Those people will have a problem with this book.

This is a great book. Mr. Faid has laid out his arguments very logically and in simple terms. Until I read this book I thought I was doing God a favour by believing in him in spite of all the lack of hard evidence, but on reading it I felt I felt so small. I said to myself, "here's all the evidence one can ask for and you thought you were doing God a favour". Great book.

This book examines the evidence for Christianity. It is not too haste in coming to conclusions. It asks the most relevant questions and gives thorough and direct answers to them. It is also a great evangelical tool.

This is an exceptional book examining the scientific facts about Christanity. It takes you through the basic questions, that the skeptic wants answers to. The author, Robert Faid, has a very delicate approach that immediatly appeals to anyone that is a "product of the scientific community." Or anyone that just has a tough time with the questions surrounding Christanity. I highly recommend this book to the skeptic....but prepare yourself for the truth.

I found this book by chance on my father's bookshelf and have used it to educate my sister and brother, in the seventh and fourth grades respectively, on scientific matters that seem to clash with their Christian beliefs. While it's a little dry for children, I found the text easy to understand, remember, and explain to the kids despite my then-disinterest in sciences in any form.

An OUTSTANDING book particularly for the scientifically-minded individual who honestly believes he/she is far too intelligent to believe in God. I formally CHALLENGE you to read it . . . if you dare . . .

Yup. Silly book based on supernaturalism and mathematics. Anyone want to commission him to prove that the pyramids are landing posts for spaceship?

For anyone dismissing God or Christianity as "scientifically" impossible or something silly this book is a great read. It begins at that point and proceeds to gather the real facts. Any honest skeptic will have to reevaluate his position as did this very skeptical but factually honest scientist. I loved it the first time I purchased it in the 1980's but I loaned it one too many times. Found it here although out of print it was at a very reasonable price. It is really unused although sold as used.

This book is so pathetic, it almost makes me cry. Faid tries to defend his faith by twisting and bending science in all ways possible, resulting in something that is not science at all, but pure apologetics or pseudo-science. The way he approaches things, he could just as well try to 'prove' the validity of Santa Claus or the easter bunny with the same result.

Books like these just make clear that things like religion aren't backed by any scientific proof whatsoever. Claiming it does so only makes things worse for religion, leading to hilarious outbursts like this book... so why bother in the first place.