While I Generally Pour Disdain on Anything French, I'll Make an Exception

 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/does-god-exist-modern-science-shows-he-must-bestseller-argues-mgnrqrtp6

 https://x.com/nancyrpearcey/status/1974867429164470408?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

"French scientists give scientific evidence for God: "Two French authors, Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies, argue that the latest scientific theories lead to only one logical conclusion: an all-powerful deity created the universe and all life within it. Their argument has already gained traction. The French edition of their book God, the Science, the Evidence, published in 2021, and subsequent translations in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, have sold more than 400,000 copies.... The authors have written a critique of materialism — the theory that all reality, including our origins, thoughts and consciousness, can be explained solely by physical matter and physical processes.... For the past century, for example, scientists have known the universe is expanding. If stars and galaxies are always moving further apart, logic dictates, the universe must have started at a single point, in a state of immense density. In 1931 the Belgian theoretical physicist Georges Lemaître termed this the “primeval atom”. We now call it the Big Bang. But if all matter originates from that single explosion, and materialism dictates there is nothing outside of matter, what caused the bang? He argues that the only rational explanation for a single point is for something outside the material world, an external being that could have started it — a creator God. Another key mystery that can be explained only by the existence of some universal God, the authors argue, is the start of life. “DNA appeared on earth 3.8 billion years ago, and it was a technological marvel,” said Bonnassies. “All living beings on earth: bacteria, human beings, plants, animals — they are all coded by this same DNA.” According to the theory of evolution, this incredibly sophisticated data storage system — 40,000 billion times more dense than the most advanced computer today — emerged from the primordial soup quite by chance. The authors write: “While we still do not know how that gap was bridged, or a fortiori, how to replicate such an event, we do know enough to appreciate its infinite improbability.” “I think that everybody should ask themselves, at some point in their life, ‘Are we just the result of chance and necessity? Or are we more than that?’”