Our Comments
In Not A Chance, author R. C. Sproul makes some
profound observations about the sovereignty of God and challenges the
reader to refute the concept of "chance." His book is an excellent
an excellent thought provoker about the sovereignty of God.
Book Information
Not A Chance
R. C. Sproul
© 1994 by RC Sproul
Hardback - 234 pages
$15.00
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Not A Chance
by R. C. Sproul
 About the
Book
Announcing the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope,
the news reporter began: "Fifteen to 17 billion years ago the universe
exploded into being."
"Exploded into being?" mused R. C. Sproul.
"Does this mean that 15 billion years ago the universe exploded from
non-being into being? Then what exploded?" In Not a
Chance Sproul takes a hard look at such conundrums: Just what is
chance? Can it account for what is?
As a respected Christian apologist, theologian, and
philosopher, R. C. Sproul might be expected to find causation through
chance a hard pill to swallow. But in Not a Chance we learn
that he is not alone.
Among others troubled by chance probability . . .
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David Hume: "Chance is only our ignorance
of real causes." |
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Charles Darwin: "I cannot look at the universe
as a result of blind chance." |
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Albert Einstein: "Quantum physics is certainly
imposing, but an inner voice tells me that it is
not yet the real thing. ...I, at any rate, am
convinced that He is not playing at the dice." |
In a lively dialog with modern thinkers from Hume to
Niels Bohr and Carl Sagan, Not a Chance consults laws of logic,
linguistic and scientific theory, and mathematical understandings to
probe the cause-effect relationship.
Not a Chance invites all students of life to
approach, with eyes open and mind alert, the wobbly pedestal from which
chance rules modern cosmology
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