God The Science The Evidence

       

PIC No. 110: Pails in Comparison (Dec. 3, 2025)

• Title: GOD: The Science, The Evidence—The Dawn of a Revolution
• Authors: Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies
• Publisher: Palomar (Oct. 14, 2025, 562 pages)
• Management Bucket #2 of 20: The Customer Bucket

Welcome to Pails in Comparison, the sidekick of John Pearson’s Buckets Blog. This blog features my “PICs”—short reviews of helpful books—with comparisons to other books in my 20 management buckets (core competencies) filing system. 

"A Lot of Sadness for Atheists"

Oh, my. Where to start? At 562 pages, any serious book reviewer would need at least five or six pages (single-spaced) to give justice to this extraordinary book. You can thank me now—this will be shorter. 

In Chapter 1, “The Dawn of a Revolution,” Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies write, “Never before have so many spectacular scientific discoveries emerged in such a short period of time. These discoveries have overturned our view of the cosmos and forcefully put the question of the existence of a creator God back on the table.”

 “ULO!” Two hosts of a French Muslim radio station welcomed the authors to their “book club” broadcast and portrayed this book as an “Unidentified Literary Object (ULO)!” The hosts described it as “the publishing sensation of the year’s end” that became “the number one bestselling non-fiction book in France.” One host commented:

“God is selling, after all! They approach the topic from a deist perspective. I really liked this book. But I also felt a lot of sadness while reading it. A lot of sadness for atheists.”

Top-10 Reasons to Order 2 Copies!

#1. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: 400,000 copies sold! Just published in English in October 2025, “the book everyone is talking about” features a diverse collection of endorsers: “15 personalities from all walks of life.” 

Authors Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies note that “To our knowledge, no other book like the one you are holding in your hands exists. We have aimed to make it easy and enjoyable to read for all, while ensuring accuracy. The chapters are independent, so readers can approach them in any order of their choice. We have done our best; we leave the rest to your free judgment.”

With their permission, I then bounced around the two major sections: “Evidence Within the Sciences” and “Evidence From Outside the Sciences.” (You should see my marked-up copy! And I’m not a science guy—or an apologetics geek.)

#2. THE PURPOSE. “To make our intentions perfectly clear from the outset, the purpose of this book is not to militate for a particular religion, much less to engage in an analysis of the nature of God or his attributes. The goal of this book is to gather into one volume the most up-to-date rational arguments for the possible existence of a Creator God.”

#3. WIGGLE ROOM? The authors (who write in an enjoyable and non-technical style) are generous with presenting all sides to the key issues of science and evidence. (Example: Chapter 17: “The Humanly Inaccessible Truths of the Bible.”) The book employs a unique color-coding approach (blue ink) when quoting experts—which makes for much smoother reading.

The authors ask, “What can we conclude about these truths? Did they fall from the sky?” Read this: “Of all the ancient sacred texts known to us, [the Bible] is the only one that does not place the Sun and Moon on a divine pedestal.” And what inspired the Hebrews “to adopt a way of life different to that of their neighbors”? (Examples: no human sacrifice, better conditions for women, “and the condemnation of astrology and superstition.”)

So Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies lay out their arguments for the existence of a creator God, and quote Robert Wilson (1978 Nobel Prize in Physics), “Certainly if you are religious, I can’t think of a better theory of the origin of the universe to match with Genesis.” Then they challenge us:

“Now it is up to you, the reader, to judge this anomaly and form an opinion.
There is not much wiggle room between two alternatives: it is either the result of pure chance or of a divine revelation.”

#4. “THE ALLEGED ERRORS OF THE BIBLE, WHICH ARE NOT ERRORS.” That’s the title of Chapter 18, a must-read that covers the errors most commonly ascribed to the Bible. The authors give an amazing amount of equal time to naysayers (in blue ink!), such as the section, “The Stupidities of the Bible: Error No. 2: The Earth existed before the stars.”

A fourth “error” is noted: “The Bible teaches that the earth is flat.” Did you know this? “Let us make it clear from the outset. This regularly repeated accusation is really surprising because there isn't any passage in the Bible which teaches that the Earth is flat.” 

#5. YOU’RE ON THE JURY! In Chapter 19, the authors begin: “No one has the right to dismiss this question: ‘Who could Jesus be?’” They discuss “four astonishing or inexplicable facts that demand our attention.” Most of the chapter focuses on the fourth fact.

“Fact 4: Jesus asked his followers, and through them, indirectly asks us, an unsettling question: ‘But you, who do you say that I am?’  At first glance this question, ‘Who do you say that I am?’ (Matthew 16:15), seems simple, harmless, and open-ended, but it will actually end in a problem of implacable logic. But we soon find that there are very few logical ways to answer it. Moreover, we have enough information to eliminate most of the alternatives.”

So the authors give “seven answers that have been given historically and which are the only logical answers to the question ‘Who could Jesus be? (They’ve tried it all!).”
   • He didn’t exist, he is a myth created later on.
   • He was a great sage.
   • He was a madman.
   • He was a failed opportunist.
   • He was a prophet.
   • He was the Messiah and an extraordinary man, but only a man.
   • He was the Messiah and God made man.

Next…the authors invite us into a courtroom hearing with this: “…in this chapter, everyone can come to his own conclusion. No one can claim ignorance when asked the question, ‘Who could he be?’ We ask you to accompany us actively in each step of this chapter.

“Dear reader, take your seat among the jurors
—the hearing is about to start.”

The authors add, “Each of these seven possibilities will now be subject to a thorough scrutiny, and we will call reason, history, the Bible, and most importantly, the testimony of Jesus’ enemies to the witness stand.”

Brilliant! This back-and-forth reminded me of the creative “debate” that Bill Hull hosts among 10 debaters in his book, Time to Stand Up (read my review). That debate question: “Jesus is God come to earth in human flesh. Yes or No?”

#6. PODCASTS. To go deeper, you’ll appreciate these articulate podcast interviews:

“Free Expression,” from the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal. Gerry Baker, editor-at-large, interviews Michel-Yves Bolloré on the topic, “Science, Evidence, and the Existence of God.” Listen here (42 minutes). View on YouTube here (47 minutes).

Gerry Baker, editor-at-large at the WSJ, interviews Michel-Yves Bolloré on the topic, “Science, Evidence, and the Existence of God.” (47 minutes) - Follow along with the YouTube transcript.

 

 

Cardinal Timothy Dolan interviews Olivier Bonnassies about his book, God, the Science, the Evidence (14 minutes). Follow along with the YouTube transcript.

 

#7. FREE 6-PAGE GUIDE. On the book’s content-rich website, you can download the authors’ guide, “3 Scientific Breakthroughs That Offer Evidence for a Creator God” (a 6-page PDF). The breakthroughs address: 1) The Fine-Tuning of Physical Laws, 2) The Big Bang Theory, and 3) The Statistical Impossibility of Life by Chance.” Stunning!

#8. “THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE LIVES.” On the book’s website, others weigh in, including Fr. Robert Spitzer, Astrophysicist and Philosopher, and former president of Gonzaga University. “This book will change lives,” he writes.

Note: I’ve attended Father Spitzer’s lectures on The Shroud of Turin and he’s the real deal. (By the way, check out the “Ask Father Spitzer” feature when you visit The Shroud of Turin: An Immersive Experience, in Orange County, Calif.)

Read my "review" of my visit to the museum here.

#9. “PATRONIZING NONSENSE.” The authors quote from Mere Christianity, the classic book by C.S. Lewis. “You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.”

#10. BIG BANG! Did you know that the phrase, “Big Bang,” was used for the first time in 1949, live on BBC radio? It was used by Fred Hoyle, then president of the Royal Astronomical Society—"and one of the staunchest opponents” of the theories of Alexander Friedmann and Georges Lemaitre (and later those of Fr. George Gamow).

Must-read: Chapter 5, “A Brief History of the Big Bang,” and Chapter 8, “The Big Bang, A Noir Thriller.” (Did I mention, I’m not a “science guy,” but this book is so well-written that I couldn’t put it down. And did I also mention, the humor is perfect? See Chapter 11, “Preliminary Conclusions: One Small Chapter for Our Book, One Giant Leap for Our Argument.”

SO…IS THERE PROOF FOR A CREATOR GOD? The authors respect your intelligence and leave the decision up to you. (And as I mentioned, order two books: one for yourself and one for a friend or family member.) This is a fascinating book—and I’ll end with this note: don’t skip the footnotes! I found this in Footnote #672 on page 531:

“We have not addressed some of the more far-fetched arguments that have been made throughout history against God's existence, such as his invisibility. Cabanis, an eighteenth century anatomical doctor, exclaimed: ‘I cannot find the soul with my scalpel!’ In a similar vein, a highly professional Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, cried out from his space vessel Vostok 1: ‘I don't see any God up here!’”

PAILS IN COMPARISON: Reading this book reminded me of several other must-read books in the Customer Bucket, plus other buckets/core competencies. (Why the “Customer Bucket?” This book will appeal to three customers: atheists, agnostics, and believers. The authors treat each customer group with respect.)

[   ] Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis. (Order from Amazon.)

[   ] Time to Stand Up, by Bill Hull. (Order from Amazon. Read my review.)

[   ] Is God Real? Exploring the Ultimate Question of Life, by Lee Strobel. (Order from Amazon. Read my short review.)

And speaking of customers:

[   ] Faith for the Curious: How an Era of Spiritual Openness Shapes the Way We Live and Help Others Follow Jesus, by Mark Matlock. (Order from Amazon. Read my review.)

[  ] Perhaps it might be time to pull out this book from 1975 about “The Engel Scale.” What's Gone Wrong With the Harvest?: A Communication Strategy for the Church and World Evangelism, by James F. Engel. (Order from Amazon.) See the chart in the Customer Bucket (page 53) in Mastering the Management Buckets.

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