Throughout this book, I have argued that the scientific evidence we have concerning biological and cosmological origins leads logically to the knowledge of God. Now we see that the attempt to deny the explanatory power of the God hypothesis eventually and necessarily requires positing infinite probabilistic resources and universes—a postulation that denies the possibility of knowledge. Indeed, these resulting cosmologies illustrate a maxim of St. Augustine: Crede ut intelligas, that is, “Believe in order to understand.” I have argued that we can reasonably believe in the reality of God because
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