God’s
Truth: A Scientist Shows Why it Makes
Sense to
Believe in the Bible, by Dr. Alan Hayward
Published 1998: 330 Pages
From the Publisher:
Sensitive to popular skepticism, yet objective in his appraisal of the facts,
Alan Hayward has collected an impressive array of arguments drawn from Biblical
and scientific sources to convince even the most doubting of the world's
Thomases that the Bible is, indeed, God's truth! God's Truth was first published
in 1973 by Marshall, Morgan and Scott, London and received instant acclaim as a
balanced defense of the Bible by scientists, ministers, Christian workers, and
lay people. This revised edition was first published in 1983, and reprinted in
paperback in 1998. The late professor F.F. Bruce advised the author on Chapters
16-18 and there is some overlap with arguments from Bruce's The New Testament
Documents. The author also introduces some of his own scientific arguments
developed in more detail in 'Does God Exist' and 'Creation and Evolution'. It is
worth noting that the author, a physicist, takes a middle path between orthodox
evolutionary biology and the evangelical Creation Science movement. Dr Hayward,
while a Bible-believing Christian, does not advocate 'young earth' or 'flood
geology' ideas. The meat of the book however is made up of arguments from the
textual, historical and archaeological record.