If modern science is now telling us that the complex systems of information…being highly specified and precisely coordinated…everywhere we look in the natural world…has their origin exclusively from an Intelligent Designer…who crafted the varied and imaginative lifestyle habits for lions, elephants, dolphins, and geese…then this generates the high confidence in the authority of this Intelligent Designer God to be able to craft value, worth, and purpose…in our unique and distinctive lives as well.

One of the key arguments of this book…and I think one of the great Christian takeaways from the advancements of modern science as they currently are unfolding today…is that merely proving the existence of God through the compelling evidence in the natural world…of design based on intelligence…only takes us half-way…only matters in the big picture if we can take the next step to directly relate this new discovery…to the logical extension of the displacement component integral within the biblical narrative stories of faith…of a life-script writer God much smarter than us…helping us to discover through the intelligently guided arrangement of the experience of empirical events and circumstances in the course of our journeys of faith…the real truth about the knowledge of good and evil.

Not everyone will become PhD scientists…able to navigate through the technical facts spanning several disciplines of research…supporting design in nature.

Winning a consensus favoring design in today’s scientific community…and rejecting materialism…is without question a monumental event in human history.

But the discovery by modern science of the inescapable presence of design in the natural world…and thus the existence of an intelligent designer God…expands a million-fold when filtered through the biblical narrative stories of faith…making a compelling argument that a faith-journey following the God of the Bible…is both credible and accessible…in our modern popular culture…as the one true worldview narrative…excluding all others (Mt. 7:13-14; Jn. 11:25, 14:6).

As a result of a journey of faith following God…Old Testament Jews of faith…and New Testament Christians in the early church…and today…are supposed to be able to look back after a moment of reflection about the course and direction of our lives…and say: “God knew what He was doing…in guiding and directing my life…better than I could possibly have known about or orchestrated on my own. He led me through a narrow path that was right and correct…in a way I could not have foreseen or anticipated ahead of time.”

This is different from human fiction-writing…as already noted above.

The suspense-filled story endings for Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher, Tom Sawyer, Elizabeth Bennett, and even for Sidney Carton in Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities…are that they knew what they were doing…that they resolved their particular conflict through human ingenuity, persistence, and the application of their unique talents or their unique positions at the time.

The Bible is the only work of literature in all of history that has stories with endings that resolve with the realization that God knew…and knows…what He is doing.

This nail cannot be hit on the head by a hammer too many times.

Through the recent discovery in this new Age of Information…that the natural world is filled with complex, specified, and coherently integrated systems of information…this now clearly exhibits the realization that the Intelligent Designer of the natural world…knew and knows what He is doing…in creating living organisms and non-living material things…far and away above anything that we can manufacture.

This now makes the leap from science to theology…that closes the gap between science and faith…a hypothetical gap that should never have been fabricated…because we now understand…in the natural world through science…and in the composition of the biblical narrative stories of faith…the modern fact-based evidence that God correctly knows what He is doing in everything….that God is a bridge that we can safely cross from the concrete material realities of the natural world…to the abstract thought of precisely how human beings created in the image of God…can best conduct our lives at the peak of intellectual and moral reasoning.

The connecting of the dots between the natural world…and the biblical narrative stories of faith…both equally display the brilliance of God.

This dovetails with the idea that after living a journey of faith within our God-composed life-script…after the pattern given in the biblical narrative stories of faith…that we can look back in hindsight and conclude that God knew what He was doing…knew what He was doing long before our own personal story endings bring to light the foresight of God…having set us early…and punctually on-time…upon a course that made our life-scripts beneficial to ourselves and to others…having well-defined purpose, meaning, dignity, and worth.

That God’s way and thoughts are higher than ours…now connects beautifully and seamlessly with the entirely secular field of science…which turns out after closer inspection…to not be secular and faith-free at all.

Modern science at this point in time now looks back through the discoveries of the last four or five decades…and sees the brilliance of design in the natural world…identifying the presence of intelligent design and an intelligent designer.

From this the ordinary man-on-the-street…can also now infer…after closer examination of the story endings in the biblical narrative stories of faith…that it was God who divinely and supernaturally resolved the particular problem or conflict…and not man operating on our own.

If we track the logic of this…it leads directly to the unique…and I would say revolutionary element in the Bible…that God displaces our ways with His higher and better ways…when we accept His invitation…place our faith and trust in Him…and enter in through the narrow gate (Mt. 7:13-14) of a journey of faith following His leading.

Starting way back in the Genesis 22:1-14 account of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah…God is saying: “Just trust me”…in the eventuality of the ram caught in the thicket of bushes nearby…sacrificed in place of Isaac…providing a priceless foreglimpse…for us…of what God would do two thousand years later on the cross at Calvary.

The God-composed journey of faith life-script for Abraham initiates a revolutionary new concept into the marketplace of ideas…the displacement of our ways with God’s higher ways and thoughts…which does not exist anywhere in human literary fiction, non-fiction, ancient mythology, anthropology, philosophical worldviews, or religions…in the course of human history up to this present time…other than in the Bible.

God displacing our ways with His higher ways and thoughts through divinely composed life-scripts…that require the activation of faith and trust on our part…life-scripts communicated to us by listening in the Spirit to God speaking to us…in combination with our free-will choice to follow this enlistment into a risk-filled calling and mission-plan…is as contrary to worldly conventional normalcy and thinking as is imaginable.

The concept of the living God actively participating in the definitive course and direction of our lives…either by an early recognition in childhood or adolescence of a special, innate, God-given talent we possess…or by a direct revelation of a specific calling and mission for our lives as adults that we could not anticipate ahead of time…this is on the opposite side of the spectrum from the competing worldview narrative of humanism…which says that we have the capacity within ourselves to operate as autonomous, independent agents determining the course of our lives on our own…going our own way apart from God…which is the dominant recurring worldview over the secular history of mankind.