When honest skeptics and thinking believers ask whether belief in God stands up to intellectual scrutiny, they are looking for something deeper than emotional comfort. They are searching for objective markers in history and science that point beyond random chance. Is it reasonable to believe in God, or is faith just a blind leap in the dark? The mathematical probability of one person fulfilling just eight specific Old Testament prophecies by chance is 1 in 10¹⁷: a number so v
