Choosing Jesus and Science
Working 47 years in medical and biochemical sciences, publishing more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and serving as director of 25 reference and research laboratories, Jim Pirkle certainly understands and advances science. He also has faith in God—a belief bolstered by scientific findings.
“The more we know from science, the more God is revealed especially as we examine the complexity and interdependencies of creation at the molecular level.”
Though some believe that faith in Jesus and science can conflict, Dr. Pirkle contends that the opposite is the case – scientific findings consistently reveal God’s handiwork. This revelation of God at the molecular level keeps expanding as we see more and more complexity and interdependency in protein function, the roles of nucleic acids, gene interactions, glycobiology, lipidomics, protein interactions (the Interactome) and molecular feedback and control loops.
He reviews two important areas of current discussion: Neo-Darwinism and the fine-tuning of the universe for life on Earth. His weight-of-evidence evaluation of Neo-Darwinism includes: life originating from non-life, within-kind adaptation (microevolution), and between-kind adaptation (macroevolution). His review of the fine-tuning of the universe examines multiple extreme requirements for the nature of matter, galaxy clusters, the Milky Way, our solar system, the sun, and the Earth in order for life to exist on Earth.
Further, Dr. Pirkle explains how we are the best evidence for God. God explains what our lives will be like if we choose to follow Him or if we do not. Pirkle maintains that we can look at our own lives and find a close match to what God says.
That Jesus Be Preeminent
Jesus is the Bread of Life; everything else is at best only a picture of food. Jesus is worth the giving up of all else, because He is incomparably wonderful compared to the sum of all other things. God’s purpose is to maximize our fellowship with Jesus for His glory and our benefit. God knows that we are made so that we are complete in Jesus and in Him alone. Satan’s purpose is to eliminate or minimize our fellowship with Jesus.
That Jesus Be Preeminent provides scripture-based, practical guidance on exalting Jesus to the preeminent place in our lives and keeping Him there. Author Jim Pirkle, MD, PhD, explores how Jesus is both simple and deep—simple in His outstretched loving arms and deep in His marvelous nature, which includes the fullness of God and all the blessings of God.
Dr. Pirkle explains how keeping Jesus preeminent transforms us into the image of Jesus and opens the door for the power of God to move in our lives. Special sections include the mystery of Jesus in me and me in Jesus, God and science, the major deceptions of Satan, breaking free from bondage, and worship.