God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidence that the Earth was Created to Produce Humans Paperback – Illustrated, May 12, 2015

Knight has written a page turner that could easily be employed in apologetics. Much of the material isn't new to a person of faith, but Knight seems to have started out as an agnostic.The beauty of the mathematics that underpin so much of nature and the way in which it reveals a precise intelligence of design was startling. He presents some facts about cosmology and the numbers that underly it that I was not aware of. The puzzle of disparate systems and planetary movements that nurtured and protect life on Earth everyday without chaos is truly remarkable.The author explores the staggering odds for an environment in the universe that meets the requirements for supporting intelligent life. Knight makes the case with scientific examples for Earth being an exception among planets. He suggests even though cosmologists are presently discovering planets that may be inhabitable, real suitability for life is just conjecture. Probably none have the benefits of constant liquid water, water vapor that becomes rain, moderate temperatures and a moon that influences the planetary tilt for seasons, nor the weather systems that provide for plant growth.At the least the book supports the argument for intelligent design. At the most, for a loving, nurturing God that has a purpose for the human race. Knight isn't endorsing any religious philosophy, only the fact that there is something amazingly special, obviously preplanned and magical about our blue planet.In the last chapters he touches on our Neolithic ancestors. Rather than the hunter gatherer near-humans we assume they were, they possessed an intelligence that built time and season-measuring monuments like Stonehenge with mathematic exactitude. Measurement systems taken for granted today had their root in those ancestors and their measurement of the movements of the heavenly bodies. He also relates a personal experience that occurred while exploring a Neolithic site that changed his outlook on the extrasensory.I highly recommend this book to the believer and unbeliever alike. It was easy to read and a reminder that each person has a greater purpose and a responsibility for stewardship of a home that was likely fashioned for us by a Designer we may one day realize.

There are many things that are amazing in life, and many more issues that aligned academics and philosophers on opposite conceptual poles. One question that hugely baffles humanity is about our origins and purpose in life, and how we can retrace our origins. Mr. Christopher Knight does a wonderful job of revelation the role of the creator in this book and offers an exhilarating story of secrets embedded in our DNA and roles played the moon in our creation and subsequent evolution. Indeed, his theories might remain unwelcome in some of the mainstream world of academia, but they are very well known and accepted in the ordinary world, including mine. I did not have to be religious to know that I am a product of deliberate design but the laws of symmetry and order that govern, not only the existence of human bodies, but also of all other things visible to the eye, and accessible to other known four senses, can surely attest the existence of a grand designer and mighty builder of our civilizations."God's Blueprint" is a must read for both academics and non-academics who wish to stretch their minds by attempting to provide alternative views to Mr. Knight's well-researched and nicely articulated theories that might prove vital to our understanding about our origins and secrets of our existence.

An extraordinarily incisive book that reads more like a compelling mystery than a stoic hard science novel. The thesis is that an overriding eternal intelligence or architect was responsible for the Earth's creation as a perfect habitat for the development of self-conscious humans, (and other sentient creatures), as opposed to a random fortuitous series of cosmic events since the Big Bang . Mr. Knight is a self-professed skeptic that does not haphazardly reach his conclusion about the ultimate question of whence we came from, but rather methodically goes through the litany of modern astrophysical and quantum theory evidence to support his theory.

I read the book but didn't feel that it's conclusions were supported very well. A good attempt, but ultimately, not convincing.

I enjoyed this book thoroughly. Christopher Knight makes a compelling argument for the existence of a creator, and as a pastor I appreciate his ability to connect his findings to at least intelligent design, if not to God.

I have read most of Christopher Knight's books and have enjoyed them very much. If you combine the information in this book with the info in Civilisation One you have to wonder what really happened back in the Near Neolithic to propel man towards civilisation. You also must wonder why the Ancient Alien crowd hasn't noticed!

It was kinda dry but some interesting facts

Really disappointed with this one. I can't understand what's new here. What was the purpose of this book? I'm halfway through and have no enthusiasm to keep going. That's so unlike any of his previous works. I have read and loved all of Christopher Knight's other books and really loved them (except Second Messiah - fun read, but really went down the wrong path, read Picknett and Prince's "Turin Shroud" instead).

A mostly-enjoyable, informative, philosophical and clever read from an author who admits he had no religious conviction or pre-conceived ideas on this topic. A lot of his writing is modern philosophy meets pop science; fascinating but seemingly irrelevant at times. Equally irrelevant was the author’s update on pre-Columbus journeys to North America which belongs in the author’s earlier work “The Hiram Key”. The first two-thirds of the book covers the work of others…. The “God’s Blueprint” chapter does not arrive until the last quarter of the book. When the author’s specialist area (the science of prehistory) shows up it also recycles arguments from his earlier work. These ideas revolve around seeing patterns in a random assortment of ancient systems of measurement. Yet if you look for patterns in any random system sooner or later you will find something that fits. You might as well throw a million darts at a barn door then draw the dartboard at the location of the biggest dart cluster. Professional archaeologists maintain that the whole idea of the “Megalithic Yard” (covered in his earlier book “Civilisation One”) has been debunked yet the author insists otherwise. He claims that archaeologists are not adequately polymath to have the expertise the judge the evidence.The author does admit that a billion years ago the nice neat ratios he sees in the relationship between Sun, Moon and Earth would not have even existed. They are contemporary flukes. A billion years from now there will be a different set of coincidences. The author fails to see this as an obvious flaw and explains it is because God want us to see the blue print only NOW in our existence. With that logic you will convince yourself of anything. Others, of course have theorised that the answer to this conundrum is that the Moon was made by time travelling humans from the far future (see “Who Built the Moon?” by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler - Watkins Publishing 2014.) The author seems doubtful of the “anthropic principle” (basically, the argument is that lots of coincidences had to happen to create life otherwise we would not be here to observe the fact). He suggests this is not “scientific” being analogous to a belief in God yet the “anthropic principle” is based upon the laws of probability and logic. It does lead to the intriguing possibility that we are alone in the universe. Life is so highly improbable. Drake’s equation is known to be vastly over-optimistic in its estimate of the number of intelligent species in the universe. If they did exist they may have never used radio signals to contact us. Instead they may have left artefacts. This all contradicts the theorem in the book “Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence” by Ellis Silver (ideas4writers 2017) that humans are a poor fit for Earth so we must have originated elsewhere. “God’s Blueprint” suggests that humans are too perfect and lucky to have just one earthly paradise – the only place where life-as-we-know-it could exist.This book is quite a journey with lots of ideas being discussed. Probably the best is the theory that there is a message from our creator buried in our DNA. It would have been nice if this book had actually covered more of THAT. We are witness to a lot of good ideas yet still the book runs out of steam. It lacks anything really new and the author’s navel-gazing becomes tiresome towards the end.

In all the books I have read not one has put a scientific explanation forward to there actually being a creator entity until now, the proof is out there and these guys have made me think again. I now have a totally new outlook on time space and the whole diversity of life and the ultimate question where did we come from

Arrived safe and sound, pleased with my purchase. Thank you.

This book is amazing as described

Very well researched and very well written for the layman.