title: Beyond the Cosmos: What Recent Discoveries in Astronomy and Physics Reveal About the Nature of God
author:  Hugh Ross 
description: Ross (Creation and Time, NavPr., 1994) offers a variation on the argument proving the existence of God. He first examines the implications of the newest discoveries in quantum and particle physics that demonstrate the existence of more than four dimensions. Building also on Einstein's general and special theories of relativity, the author shows that science can not only point the way to the existence of the Creator but can also show that God is and has always been able to operate in all the universe's possible dimensions. Ross applies this extra-dimensionality of God to explain the apparent paradoxes of several theological doctrines (e.g., the Incarnation, the Trinity, free will and predestination, etc.). His blending of theology and science seeks to address the claim made by Paul Davies in his God and the New Physics (1984) that modern science provides a more convincing proof of God's existence than religion. But he weakens his argument by trying to interpret scripture in terms of science. A more successful response to this claim is found in Science, Technology and Religious Ideas (Univ. Pr. of America, 1994), which acknowledges the integrity of each methodology. Recommended only where there is demand.?Pius Murray, Holy Apostles Coll. & Seminary, Cromwell, Conn.<BR>Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  “Today, the benefits of the scientific community are sometimes mixed,
  especially when faith in the Creator is mocked as a concept. In this milieu, I
  know of no leader standing as a voice with clarity, dignity, and
  respectability like Hugh Ross. He provides believable and balancing insights
  that strengthen reasons to believe for any honest, thoughtful hearers.
  Scholarly insights join to an irenic tone—the truth and the temperament he
  brings unite to gain a climate that is at once enlightening and engaging.”
  
  
  **Jack W. Hayford** , president, International Foursquare Churches;  
  chancellor, The King’s College and Seminary;  
  founding pastor, The Church On The Way
  
  
  “This is a bold presentation that integrates many scientific disciplines into
  a fascinating, comprehensive view of the universe. Given the Big Bang’s well-
  accepted implication of a metaphysical cause for our universe, and string-
  theory awareness that reality exists in more than four dimensions, it’s worth
  the 