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"...John and the others had seen the resurrected Jesus innumerable times...Why would these men - and innumerable other men and women - go to their deaths for a preposterous lie?"

This is one of the most convincing arguments for the Resurrection for me, personally. Elsewhere, Gary Habermas and Michael Licona show how the Apostles' belief was genuine and how hallucinations are implausible explanations for it.

The scientific probabilities for the universe randomly developing in a way that can sustain life are unimaginably small. The numbers are ridiculous.

"The fool says in his heart 'there is no God.'"

The evidence he has presented so far is strong in favor of a Creator. The "fine-tuning" argument is particularly compelling. So far, though, his argumentation also rests heavily on the Big Bang theory. He assumes the Big Bang as scientific fact and uses it as evidence of an intelligent Designer. I was not prepared for that line of argumentation from Metaxas.