How To Know God Exists: Solid Reasons To Believe in God, Discover Truth, and Find Meaning in Your Life

vangelist McDowell (More Than a Carpenter) and writer/editor Williams posit that everyone ponders the following three questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? They seek to provide the answers to those questions from a traditional, evangelical Christian point of view. They maintain that secularism has caused God to be banned from society and its institutions, a situation that makes answering these questions impossible unless readers abandon scientific rationality and make faith in a transcendent God the touchstone of reality. The book suggests that belief in gods was largely universal in ancient times. Moreover, it posits that “naturalists” (the authors’ term for people who reject or question the existence of the supernatural) won’t acknowledge the existence of God because that would mean that they’d have to adhere to moral values that might impinge on personal freedom, particularly sexual activity. McDowell and Williams argue, controversially, that naturalists cannot experience conscience, enjoy beauty, or find meaning in life because of their mechanistic way of thinking.