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For Johnny
who first suggested that I should write a book like this.
And for all those like him whose faith needs strengthening or rekindling



God's Truth!
A scientist shows why it makes
sense to believe the Bible







Alan Hayward
M.Sc.(Eng.), Ph.D., F.Inst.P.,
C.Eng., M.Inst.Mech.E.,
F.Inst.Pet.




















MARSHALL, MORGAN & SCOTT
London
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MARSHALL MORGAN & SCOTT
116 BAKER STREET
LONDON W1M 2BB

Copyright © Alan Hayward, 1973

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by 
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First published 1973









ISBN 0 551 05279 1









Printed in Great Britain by
Butler & Tanner Ltd
Frome and Londo



Author's Note

I	wish there was space to name all the people who deserve my thanks. But at least I must mention my friends Arthur 
Gibson, David Godfrey and Harry Whittaker, who went through the first draft with a fine-toothed comb and pointed out all its 
shortcomings. (Those that remain are not due to their inefficiency, but to my obstinacy!)
Then there is Prof. F. F. Bruce of Manchester University who advised me on the text of chapters 16 to 18, and Mr. Alan W. 
Fowler of Bridgend General Hospital on the sections dealing with medicine and anthropology.
And I shall never forget how Miss Rita Dyson typed the whole thing twice, and bits of it three or four times, accurately and-
believe it or not - cheerfully.
To them and many other willing helpers I owe a great deal. I won't say that I don't know what I should have done without them, 
because I do know.
I should have failed to produce this book.
A.	H.


Acknowledgements

The author and publishers are grateful for permission to reproduce the following copyright material:
Quotations from the New English Bible, second edition © 1970, by permission of the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses 
Quotations from the Revised Standard Version Bible used by permission of the Division of Christian Education, National 
Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
Extract from the Introduction by Dr. W. R. Thompson to the Every-man Library edition of Darwin's Origin of Species by 
permission of J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Passages from Science is God by David Horrobin, by permission of Medical and Technical Publishing Co. Ltd.
Extract from Why I Believe the Bible by A. J. Pollock, by permission of Central Bible Hammond Trust
Line drawing of Zin janthro pus) drawn by Maurice Wilson for Dr. K. P. Oakley, reproduced by kind permission of Dr. Oakley 
Drawing of Zin janthro pus by Neave Parker, reproduced by permission of the London Electrotype Agency (The Illustrated 
London News & Sketch Ltd.)
Drawing of Brontosaurs by Neave Parker, reproduced by permission of the British Museum (Natural History)


Contents

PART ONE

Facts are awkward things
1 Why bother?	2
2 A modern miracle	7
3 More history written in advance	14
4 Preview of Calvary	22
5 Jesus foretells twentieth-century problems              
6 Who could have invented Jesus?	42
7 The evidence of the empty tomb
8 A law ahead of its time	61
9 The ring of truth	69
10 Harmony doesn't just happen		.  .  .  	77
	11	It can't all be coincidence	87

PART TWO

But what about. ..?
	12	Problems? Of course!	94
	13	Can we trust the experts?	98
	14	All or nothing	110
	15	Falling between two stools	122
16	When were the books written?	132
	17	How did the Bible come down to us?	150
	18	Bible history-true or false?	171
	19	Does the Bible contradict itself?	181
	20	The nasty objections	191

	21	Is the Bible unscientific?	201
	22	Why some biologists think Darwin was wrong 	215
	23	How the human race began	227
	24 The problem of suffering	237
	25 The real problems	248

PART THREE

Now what?
26 First steps in Bible study	256
27 A power in the earth	269
		Notes and References	275
		Index	29



PART ONE


Facts are awkward things