God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that Earth was Created for Humans

by Christopher Knight

God's Blueprint is the boldest statement yet by the popular expositor of "sacred geometry," Christopher Knight. While decidedly not in the camp of Evangelical Christians, Knight makes the case for Intelligent Design using astronomical data. Most scientists reject the notion of God because they require factual, checkable evidence in order to accept any proposition as being real. But now new evidence has became available that provides hard-nosed evidence of God's existence. Nothing less than God's blueprint appears to have been discovered - found accidentally by the author while researching the science of the Neolithic (late Stone Age) people of Western Europe. Presented in the form of an evidentiary hearing, Knight makes his case in a step-by-step manner, making you the jury. At the close of the book you are asked to make a judgment as to whether the case is proven or not. The evidence will be sure to surprise and delight you. The only question that remains is, will scientists embrace the concept of a Supreme Being, as they once did in Isaac Newton's day?

Genres: Religion, Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

First published November 18, 2014

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Christopher Knight is an author who has written several books dealing with pseudoscientific conspiracy theories such as 366-degree geometry and the origins of Freemasonry.
In an interview about the book Who Built the Moon?: 2005 Knight stated that the moon is an artificial construction probably built by humans with a message in "base ten arithmetic so it looks as though it is directed to a ten digit species that is living on Earth right now - which seems to mean humans." He believes that it was created to make life on Earth possible, including humans, and that the most likely builders were humans of the future using time travel.

Reviews

[Joan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Knight is not a Christian nor a religious person. He bases his "conclusion that there is an intelligence underpinning our very existence" (181) on his investigations into engineering principles and planetary measurements. "It appears that life on Earth was deliberately planned and is not the result of mindless cosmic happenstance." (xv) He looks at ancient peoples and their construction projects involving measurements. He proposes a measurement system based on the harmony of the earth. He looks at the moon in relation to the earth. He finds so many relationships that he says it could not all be coincidence. The "likelihood of God as the power behind the creation of the earth seems irresistible." (154)
Knight is a little "out there" in that he experiences some paranormal phenomena. That might discount his findings for some people. Nonetheless, He does have good conclusions for atheists to at least think about.

[Rhyk · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm giving this 5-stars to balance out the non-reviews. I'd give it 4 otherwise.
If you are capable of not rolling your eyes at intelligent design, try reading the whole book. It will lead you there one self-testable fact after fact.

[Alan Fuller · Rating 2 out of 5]

Carpenter sees a design in nature that did not arise from randomness, but from an ancient intelligence. He makes it clear that it is not a personal god like that of the Abrahamic religions, but an impersonal god of forces. He says that historical scriptures are taken as literal accounts of past events and certain futures.

"Abstract notions of a superintelligence are not conventional in monotheistic religions and are largely the result of the impact of modern physics, including quantum physics, and astronomy." Loc. 382

He has obviously never read the fist century allegorical exegete Philo of Alexandria, who says of Moses;

"...who had learnt from the oracles of God the most numerous and important of the principles of nature, was well aware that it is indispensable that in all existing things there must be an active cause, and a passive subject; and that the active cause is the intellect of the universe..."
Philo of Alexandria; Marsh, E.C.; Yonge, C.D.. The Works of Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (Kindle Locations 117-119).

The author is no Bible scholar. He makes this puzzling statement, claiming that Abraham referred to a Sumerian God.

"Abraham left his home city of Ur in Sumer to travel to Egypt he refers to ‘the God of our Fathers’ - meaning his family’s ancestral deity." Loc. 1091

Abraham made no such statement in the Bible. The term 'God of our Fathers' isn't used until Deu 26:7, about 300 years later in the biblical narrative when Moses spoke to those who came out of Egypt.

The author also makes some confusing remarks about science. For instance, in one paragraph he says the atmosphere of Venus is CO2 and then says, "The Venusian atmosphere consists almost wholly of sulphuric acid." The atmosphere of Venus is 96.5% CO2 with sulfuric acid clouds.

Carpenter believes there might be a message from God in the mathematically ordered pattern of the size and movements of the Earth, Moon, and Sun as well as in the complexity of DNA.

"But it is the personal God who causes most problems for mankind and makes it hard or impossible for believers to think of the vastnesses of space that we have been talking about." Loc. 2568

The book is thoroughly "new age."

[Cora Pop · Rating 5 out of 5]

No book can bring such evidence as the title claims, but this one presents some very compelling facts, plus I found in it all the questions that I often find myself pondering on, and more. I'm sure I will have to reread it.

[Daniel Barrows · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book stirs the reader to apophenia, seeing patterns everywhere. That can be an exciting and awe-inspiring experience, so I can understand why Knight would write this book and why people would read it. It's complicated whether a book like this is a net benefit or net loss for the reader or for the world, because the same beliefs can promote a wide variety of behaviors.

It's not complicated to see that this book is factually utter nonsense. Knight says the moon is 27.322% of the size of the earth, and that the earth is 366% of the size of the moon. Then he says a bunch of other things about these numbers, why they're so special, and how they keep reappearing throughout the physical universe. Then he concludes with a fact which is supposed to clinch the argument and enthrall the reader in wonder at the beauty of universe's design: These two sacred numbers, 27.322 and 366, when multiplied produce 10,000.

Never mind the fact that 10,000 isn't a particularly special number outside of our arbitrary base 10 numbering system. This is actually a tautology.

If we have a number A = size of moon / size of earth, and a number B = size of earth / size of moon, we know that B = (1/A). For example, if the moon were one quarter of the size of the earth, then A = 1/4 = 0.25, and B = 4/1 = 4. Knight gives us numbers of A = 0.27322 and B = 3.66, and indeed 3.66 is about equal to 1/0.27322. Note that I wrote those as plain numbers with no percent signs, to convert them to percent, you multiply by 100, because "percent" means "per hundred".

We're interested in 27.322 * 366, or (100 * A) * (100 * B). Remember, we said B=(1/A), so that's the same as (100 * A) * (100 * (1/A)) = 100 * 100 * A * (1/A) = 100 * 100 = 10,000. Thus, these numbers have a product of 10,000 for any ratio of sizes between the earth and the moon. The moon could be 15% or 60% of the size of the earth, and the product would always be 10,000. This is a feature of mathematics, not of the physical universe.

Now, I have to return to the harder question of whether it's a net positive for the world to debunk books that lead people who are bad at math to awe.

[Dan Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meanders around a lot - not sure what Egyptian mummies with cocaine in them have to do with coincidental mathematics encoded by God, but OK.

I can't really evaluate the mathematic points the author makes, but if I just take his word for it, the most important point of the book is that God has left us messages to prove his existence. The point is that if you were trying to leave a message to be decoded millennia in the future, then why not in the "coincidences" that the earth, moon, and sun have some mathematical relationships that apparently are not needed for life on earth and yet do exist. The example that made the most sense is the fact that the moon and the sun are the exact same size in the sky as viewed from earth, enabling solar eclipses. I can attest that a total eclipse is quite an experience.

My other complaint is the author's dismissal of Christianity, lumping it in with other religions. However his reference point appears to be Catholicism, which he may regard as the standard bearer for Christianity, but I do not.

I guess it's an interesting read, like I said, I can't evaluate his mathematical claims or his statements about, say, Stonehenge. OK.

[Jim Shanahan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a page-turner, but it does present some interesting facts regarding the actual world and universe in which we live. It says the moon is 27.322 % the size of the earth. It also orbits the earth once every 27.322 days. Is this just a coincidence? The inverse of this is that the earth is 366% the size of the moon. It also takes 366 star days or sidereal days to orbit the sun. (A sidereal day is slightly shorter than our modern day, by 236 seconds, and is the time it takes for a star in the night sky viewed from your back garden, to complete one circuit *around the north star for northern hemisphere, and return to its exact position.) Interestingly, that 27.322 multiplied by that 366 is 10,000. Also if we redefine the scale for temperature, so that 0 is the freezing point of water, and 366 is the boiling point, then absolute zero is now -1000 on that same scale. The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but the sun is 400 times further away than the moon, so both are the same size when viewed from earth. How can all these coincidences be explained. The jury is still out...