Questions for discussion and reflection:
1. What role does mystery and miracles play in your faith? Where do you find yourself taking a leap of faith?
2. Keller speaks of a “war” between science and religion. Do you find in your own faith and beliefs that there is a temptation to let God retreat with each new scientific advancement?
3. In Alister McGrath’s experience, many of the unbelieving scientists he knows are atheists on other grounds than science. His atheist colleagues brought their assumptions about God to their science rather than basing them on their science (p. 90). How does McGrath’s observation strike you? Is your experience similar or different?
4. Thomas Nagel claims that physical science cannot do full justice to reality as human beings experience it (p. 91). Do you agree? Can Christianity do full justice to reality as human beings experience it?
5. Keller claims the skeptical inquirer does not need to accept any one of the positions regarding the meaning of Genesis 1 and the nature of evolution in order to embrace the Christian faith (p. 94). Do you agree? How important is a position regarding evolution for your Christian faith?
6. Keller writes: “We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order” (p. 95-96). How does this statement strike you? How might you talk with a non-believing friend about the miracles within the Christian faith?