Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

Simon Greenleaf, co-founder of Harvard’s graduate school of law, in his day the foremost expert on legal evidence, was an agnostic for years. After examining the evidence for the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Greenleaf became a fervent Christian. In a book that is still in print, he challenged fellow members of the legal profession that if they would face the facts he presented (which most of them had never considered), they would be forced by the evidence to become Christians as well. Lord Caldecote, Lord Chief Justice of England, became a believer on the basis of “strict evidence.” So did Lord Lyndhurst, one of England’s greatest legal minds, and Thomas Arnold, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. Many more men and women of similar qualifications could be named.