In the past, faith was used to explain what science couldn’t. Now, according to a groundbreaking new book, scientists are actually discovering what faith said all along. Ongoing research in cosmology, physics and molecular biology has uncovered an unexpected story — one of order, logic and intention. One that points to a Creator.
“The conclusions of science are very simple,” said French scientist and author Olivier Bonnassies. “If the universe has a beginning and is fine-tuned for life, then even a child can understand that it leads to something like God.”
Bonnassies and fellow researcher Michel-Yves Bolloré spent more than three years compiling the strongest available evidence from across the sciences — quantum mechanics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, philosophy and ethics, among others — and asking a single question: What does it all point to?
Their book, God: The Science, The Evidence, has become a surprise bestseller across Europe, but the appeal isn’t just that it defends belief. It’s that it does so without ever asking for faith.
“The only compass we used was rationality,” Bonnassies said. “In science, of course, but also in philosophy and morality. The idea was to gather evidence — independent, credible evidence — across multiple disciplines and see whether the conclusion best supported the idea of a creator or not.”
Their conclusion is clear: the more we discover about the universe, the harder it is to explain it without God.
Much of the argument rests on two points. First, that the universe had a beginning — a claim now widely accepted in physics. And second, that its laws and constants are finely tuned to make life possible. Adjust even one of them slightly, and life collapses.
Bolloré pointed to carbon as an example: “If the mass of quarks were different by even 1 percent, you don’t get carbon. Without carbon, there’s no oxygen, no DNA, no life. Nothing. So you have to ask: Why is the universe set up with exactly the right conditions for us to be here?”
It’s a pattern repeated across the physical world. Gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces — each one exists within a razor-thin margin that allows for life. And none of them, the authors argue, can be chalked up to coincidence.
Their argument isn’t new. Others have made similar claims for decades. But what’s striking is the tone. The book doesn’t appeal to theology or religious experience. It reads more like a scientific detective story — one where all the evidence keeps pointing toward something outside the bounds of space, time and matter.
“You cannot make mathematical proof about God,” Bonnassies said. “But like Sherlock Holmes, you can accumulate converging clues from different sources. That’s how investigations work. And when those clues all point in the same direction, it becomes unreasonable to ignore them.”
For people of faith, none of this is earth-shattering. Christians have always believed the universe was created with purpose. But what’s shifted is the cultural moment. For decades, believers were told that religion belonged in the heart, while science belonged in the lab.
But that wall is starting to crack.
“In the past, science was used to argue that God was not necessary,” Bolloré said. “But now we are seeing that all the latest discoveries are making it harder and harder to explain everything without God.”
The authors didn’t set out to make an argument for Christianity. They’re just raising a question that, until recently, much of the academic world considered settled: Is it still reasonable to believe in a creator?
They think the answer is not just yes — it may be the most reasonable position of all.
“Materialism is becoming an irrational belief,” Bolloré said. “It says we are just particles arranged by chance. But that doesn’t hold anymore. Not with what we know now. There is too much structure. Too much information. Too much purpose.”
That message has resonated not just with believers, but with skeptics, too. Some readers in Europe have told the authors that the evidence forced them to reconsider long-held assumptions. Others, including colleagues involved in the research process, quietly admitted the same thing.
“We’ve seen people change their minds,” Bonnassies said. “And not because we asked them to — just because the evidence is that strong.”
The book doesn’t claim to offer spiritual answers. But it does offer something powerful — especially for people who already believe: a reminder that the truths of Scripture aren’t threatened by discovery. They’re confirmed by it.
“In the end, all seems to converge in the same direction,” Bonnassies said. “And it’s very simple.”
The more science uncovers, the clearer it becomes: this didn’t happen by accident.