Briefly Reviewed: May 2026

God, the Science, the Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution

By Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies

Publisher: Palomar

Pages: 562

Price: $28

Review Author: Terry Scambray

Michel-Yves Bolloré, a computer engineer with a master’s in science and a doctorate in business, is an entrepreneur and investor. Olivier Bonnassies is an entrepreneur and author. Combining efforts, they wrote God, the Science, the Evidence to make a clear case for God’s existence by using the hard sciences, the Bible, logical and philosophical arguments, and extraordinary events like Mary’s appearances at Fatima. The book was a major bestseller in Europe, particularly in France, Spain, and Italy, and it sold over 400,000 copies even before its release in English.

The book’s first part reviews science history, acknowledging that at the beginning of the 20th century, materialism was dominant. But by the same century’s end, what the co-authors refer to as “The Great Reversal” took hold: a change brought about by scientific discoveries related to relativity, quantum mechanics, the Big Bang, and more. Bolloré and Bonnassies review the findings and statements of the likes of Belgian priest Georges Lemaître, Edwin Hubble, Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson, George Gamow, and Kurt Gödel. An ascent, if you will, toward scientific theism continues with James Watson and Francis Crick, who in 1953 found that DNA is the biochemical information system within each cell that gives form and structure to all life. This discovery leads to the investigation of cellular life, which continues as new layers of complexity continue to be discovered. Then come cosmologists Robert Dicke, Brandon Carter, and Richard Feynman, pioneers who boosted the claim of “the fine tuning of the universe.”

A revealing chapter titled “The Big Bang, A Noir Thriller” gives details on the brutal extremes to which Marxists and fascists would go to deny truth. Yet, true men of science knew the facts. One historical vignette serves to illustrate this. In packed lecture halls, the distinguished Russian mathematician Alexander Friedmann was greeted with thunderous applause each time he uttered in a hushed voice, “Gentlemen, we have demonstrated the Universe has not existed forever. It had a beginning.” Word of his statements spread, leading to clashes between police and Friedmann’s students. By 1931 Russian scientists “were resolved to open a conversation on these ideas, but the Soviet empire’s new masters — Stalin, Molotov, Bukharin, Beria — were now hostile to Western science,” the co-authors write. Indeed, the book grimly recounts the names of the many physicists who were persecuted for defying them.

The second half of the book presents “The Great Reversal from Outside the Sciences,” which begins by showing how the Bible, an ancient book, presents a vision in harmony with modern cosmology. Modern science pines for “a theory of everything,” but ancient Jewish monotheism offered one. That is, God’s revelation demythologized nature, making it an object of study, in contrast to polytheists who anthropomorphized nature, seeing it as populated by an assortment of spirits. Though demythologizing nature led to science’s sometimes abusing nature, the Israelites were preservationists in that they “rested” their fields every seven years, resulting in greater productivity, as seen in the story of Joseph in Genesis. Speaking of Genesis, that mankind descended from a single pair of ancestors is now the prevailing scientific view, which conforms with the narrative of Adam and Eve. As Penzias, a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist, once wrote, “The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I had nothing to go on but the five books of Moses and the rest of the Bible.”

The most important of the concluding chapters of God, the Science, the Evidence is “Fatima: Illusion, Deception, or Miracle?” — a question Bolloré and Bonnassies answer by presenting Mary’s miraculous appearance at Fatima, Portugal. Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, you’ll recall, had been told by Mary in a vision that on October 13 she would perform a miracle. Indeed, October 13, 1917, proved to be an incredible day. Thousands gathered at a field near Fatima beginning early in the morning, despite continuing rainfall. Suddenly the rain stopped, the sky cleared, and the sun appeared like a silver disc that could be looked at directly without eye strain. As a French writer who was there describes the event, all at once the sun “begins to turn like a wheel of fire. Shooting sprays of light in all directions, changing color several times. The sky, the earth, the trees, the rocks, and the group of visionaries, and the great crowd are successively colored yellow, blue, purple….” The crowd of thousands was, by turns, ecstatic, breathless, then terrorized, as the sun appeared to be falling to Earth. Everyone there — believers and nonbelievers alike — saw the same thing. People miles away also saw the same events. Afterward, the people present realized they and their clothes were dry, though they had been soaked earlier by the rain.

Skeptics point out that no astronomical sites in Lisbon or elsewhere detected the phenomenon. Others called it a scam, a Jesuit trick, a hoax, or a collective hallucination. Nonetheless, none of the skeptics from the big news outlets or elsewhere ever falsified the event by proving a scam via a money trail or other chicanery. Besides that, collective hallucinations are a discredited category in social science for the commonsense reason that, while the desire to conform is strong among people, enough individuals will always report accurately what they see. In other words, it is akin to trying to confine a secret, a conspiracy, to a limited group of people. It invariably fails.

Worth mentioning is the celebrated polymath and Benedictine priest Stanley L. Jaki, who assiduously studied Fatima and concluded that while the celestial events that took place there can be accounted for naturalistically, he nonetheless called this convergence of events “a miracle.” Bolloré and Bonnassies conclude that the miracle at Fatima took place so that people might believe in God.

The rest of this long (though never tedious), accessible book is taken up with proofs for the Resurrection, philosophic proofs for theism, a primer on the inerrancy of the Bible, and more. Bolloré and Bonnassies reinforce the historical fact that science began in the medieval European universities, with their reliance on the metaphysical foundation that a rational God had made the world. In effect, therefore, this book is a call for a return to the medieval vision of a rational God who created rational creatures equipped to discover the verities of nature — in other words, to do science. Thus, science and God are not merely compatible — they are inseparable. For without the Christian vision of God, science would not exist.

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