What is it then about the biblical narrative stories of faith…that differentiates God-composed life-scripts…from the humanistic approach to human life that comes alternatively from worldly conventional normalcy and thinking…in a head-to-head competition as two opposing and mutually exclusive narratives for our allegiance…as our foundational guide to life?

Modern literary fiction-writing gives us a strong and convincing clue.

Modern authors of secular fiction generate sustained interest throughout their storyline plots by keeping the book reader held in suspense until the final last pages…resolving the conflict…in a final ending that utilizes creative, literary writing talent and imagination…one example of intelligence at a high level of artistic invention.

We see the same equivalent, high-quality of imaginatively suspenseful story endings in the biblical narrative stories of faith…except for this one distinctive, added element…not found in secular stories…of God displacing our worldly conventional ways and thinking…with His higher ways and thoughts (Isa. 55:8-9)…as the engine of momentum actualized consistently throughout all of the God-composed journeys of faith life-scripts in the Bible (Gen. 22:7-13, 45:4-5; Ex. 14:13; Dt. 34:4; Josh. 6:20; 1 Sam. 17:48-49; Acts 2:37-40, 9:1-5).

One might therefore reasonably conclude from the viewpoint of skepticism…that the biblical narrative stories of faith are merely the product of human literary invention…a religious variation on the same high level of creative, imaginative artistry alongside the best of modern writers of fiction…from Shakespeare to the great novelists of today.

But we might stop here and reasonably ask: what gives skepticism the automatic right to claim the high-ground hill to set-up their artillery cannons of criticism…to start-off the discussion by asserting at the outset that suspense-filled storyline endings in the biblical narrative stories of faith are a product of human literary fiction-writing…are the product of pure mythology having no special claim to being true…when in fact the opposite may be the case…that the origin of our mental capacity to write fictional stories containing suspense…comes instead from human authors being created in the image of God…having the thoughtful capacity for writing suspense-filled fiction novels…as a derivative of His literary imaginative genius?

Today’s skeptic incorrectly assumes the absolute, humanistic context of a godless materialism in evaluating the history of literature of any kind…and therefore by definition and necessity guarantees the categorization of the biblical narrative stories of faith as being human invented mythology…having no other option available within the philosophy of materialism.

But if the modern skepticism of humanism is banking its faith…yes, faith…in the philosophy of naturalistic materialism…that the material particles and fields of energy are all that we have to work with…to define reality…this investment of trust is now empirically standing on shaky ground.

The irony of the truth in the science-versus-the-Bible debate today…is that science itself has turned the corner in recognition of its own scientifically discovered, fact-based evidence for intelligence…as the only plausible explanation behind the existence of complex, specified, and coherently integrated systems of information…that we now see in functional operation every place we look in the natural world…and now understand much better through the lens of this new Age of Information.

The recognition of the uniquely important role that information plays in the functionality of complex systems…now renders implausible the unguided and trial-and-error materialistic explanations of recent past decades for the phenomenon in the natural world…especially in the seemingly unsolvable origin-of-life paradox of how the first living organisms had to have… instantly up-and-running for survival and reproduction…a highly select assortment of coordinated parts that are information dependent.

These bundles of coordinated information…formed systems at the outset that are simply too complex to coalesce on their own…that are manifestly too complicated to blindly self-assemble into the minimum required number of components to produce function…and then somehow later over eons of time externally acquire or internally actualize from within…unimaginable quantities and qualities of dynamic new information to create the varied and distinct living organisms that radiated out to become the vast diversity of life we now observe on the earth.

The neutrally unbiased, evidentiary findings of modern science are pointing in the direction of telling us that the philosophical worldview of naturalistic materialism…has a defective conceptual framework that is now too narrowly limited, inadequate, and incapable of staying current with the expanding reality of these new facts “on the ground.”

If the human race in general…along with a sizable portion of the scientific community…as a collective group…concurs in recognizing and acknowledging the essential element of intelligence inseparable and integral within these complex, specified, and coherently integrated systems of information that now more correctly describe the living and non-living phenomenon in the natural world…this then logically and reasonably excludes the pure atheism of naturalistic materialism…as a viable philosophical worldview to inform the purpose…or more accurately the absence of purpose…for human life…the philosophy of naturalistic materialism which in our modern times now empirically turns out to be an unsupportable, false narrative.

This is a new realization…a modern resolution of an age-old question nearing a final conclusion…that many people will not like…because it strikes a fatal blow at the heart of humanism…the worldview philosophy of agnosticism and atheism…that says that we can and should be the sole guides of our own lives as self-reliant, autonomous individuals…going our own way apart from God…based upon the now unscientifically, empirically unsupportable viewpoint that the observed natural world…that we can see and touch materialistically…is all there is to reality.

The novel and unexpected new reality here…is that it is the philosophically neutral empiricism of the scientific method that is discovering, cataloging, and evaluating this vast quantity of intelligently coordinated systems of information…not theology…that is confirming from a totally secular direction this ever-expanding, new body of knowledge as genuine scientific fact-based evidence…that cannot be objectively interpreted as having any origin…other than through premeditated and knowledgeably informed intelligence…built-in, front-loaded, and in-place ahead-of-time through foresight…to produce positive outcomes of function in complex systems.

If it takes an intelligently designed sequence of carefully managed activities to brew a pot of coffee…to bake a cake…to design a specific model of laptop computer having select features and a price-tag aimed for a targeted segment of the buying public…and if it takes intelligence to collect, measure, and mix the exact chemicals to produce a scientifically designed simulation experiment of how the origin of life might have occurred 3.8 billion years ago on earth…does the similar presence of design that is immediately apparent everywhere we look in the living and non-living natural world…present a new and timely opportunity to make the final leap across the gap from science to theology…to make the intellectual connection…at this pivotal moment in human history…to be able to craft a definitive statement about the meaning and purpose of human life…that the centuries old Scientific Revolution…in part hoped to discover?

Any thoughts?