Endowed by Our Creator: How Science Points to the Truths of the Declaration of Independence

On July 4, Americans will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. At the heart of that document is the proclamation that “all men are created equal” and “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Today, many people think that belief in a Creator is a subjective preference based on their personal faith. But that was not the view of America’s Founders. Nor was it the view held by many of the thinkers who preceded them. More than two millennia ago, key Greek and Roman thinkers already argued that nature supplies objective evidence of a Creator....