- [Paul] Although believersand evidence exist,

there remains thequestion, is there a God?

Detective Jay Warner Wallacehas pursued the question

applying the same proceduresused to solve cold cases.

Starting this investigation as an atheist,

he had to accept somethingbeyond the natural

because he believed theuniverse had a beginning

before space and time.

- It began from nothing.

It didn't exist prior to the big bang.

That means you were looking for a cause

that is non-spatial,non-temporal and non-material

'cause those things are notavailable until the big bang.

So you're already looking for something

that's extra-natural.

- [Paul] AstronomerHugh Ross, who heads up

Reasons to Believe, seesGod in the universe's birth.

- It has a beginning,which implies there must be

a beginner that wasresponsible for bringing

the universe into existence.

- [Paul] And there'ssuch a precise design.

- We have fine tuning in the universe,

which is so finely tunedthat the smallest variation

in the universal constants,you wouldn't even

have a universe in whichwe have life at all.

Now, what are the odds ofthat happening on its own?

- [Paul] And just nowfinely tuned is it for life?

- If you were to addthe weight of one dime

to the universe or subtractthe weight of one dime

from the observable universe,that would be enough

to upset the balance, notto make life not possible.

How can we escape theconclusion, there must be a mind

with supernatural powerthat designed it just right

so we could be here.

- [Paul] Well, what about Jesus Christ,

his resurrection and deity?

- If there's a being outthere that could create

all space time and matterfrom nothing, I'm guessing

he could probably rise from the dead.

I'm guessing he couldprobably walk on water.

I'm guessing those areprobably small potato miracles

compared to Genesis one.

- Some people say they'llnever believe Jesus Christ

is God because all theproof for it is in the Bible

and they just don't believe the Bible.

As an atheist, JoshMcDowell set out to disprove

Christianity and the Biblebut found so much evidence,

it changed his life.

The result was his book,Evidence That Demands a verdict.

And he found much proof forChrist outside the Bible.

- In this book, evidence,I give 20 some totally

extra-biblical sourcesthat you can recapture

from it, almost everything about Christ,

that he was raised from the dead,

he fulfilled the prophecy, etc. etc. etc.

From non-biblical sources.

- [Paul] Alex McFarlandputs on conferences

nationwide, like thisone in North Carolina,

to arm Christians with prooftheir God and faith are real.

He points out what one ofAmerica's top 20th century

historians, Will Durant,a non-believer had to say.

- Durant, when he was not a Christian,

said that the four biographies,Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

their historicity wasquote, "indisputable."

- [Paul] Some claim theNew Testament was written

hundreds of years after Jesus's time

so all the supernaturaldetails about Christ

could have been addedin long after his death.

But as witnesses, theearliest disciples memorized,

sang and wrote down statementsof Christ' miraculous life

starting right after his resurrection.

- Deity, death, resurrection,

Son of God, paid for oursins, rose from the dead.

These doctrinal formulae, if you will,

these statements ofbelief, come to us within

not years, not months butweeks after the crucifixion.

- [Paul] And these disciplessaid not only were they

eye witnesses to Christ'miracles, but so were

their opponents there in Jerusalem.

- They would constantlyappeal to the knowledge

of hostile witnesses of thetruth that they're saying.

They're saying you knowwhat I'm talking about.

You were there, you saw him do this.

You heard him do this.

- But you may feel noneof this has anything

to do with you.

And you shouldn't have to think about it.

But what if there is an eternity?

And what you believe about Jesus Christ

will determine where you spend it.

Wallace says if you'rea total non-believer,

for your own sake, consider the idea

there's a miracle workingsavior, with this one caveat.

- You can't begin bysaying, I don't believe

in the supernatural.

That's the thing you'retrying to investigate.

If you start off bydenying the supernatural,

you'll never get to whether or not there's

anything supernatural, you'vealready decided there isn't.

- [Paul] McFarland mentionswhat's known as Pascal's Wager.

- If we live as if thereis God and it turns out

there wasn't, we've lost nothing.

Plus, we've lived a goodlife and been happy.

But if you, the atheist,live as if there's not a God,

and it turns out there is,you've lost everything.

So the wise man would wagerthat there might be a God.

- [Paul] Paul Strand, CBN News, reporting

from Greensboro, North Carolina.