By Asaiah Logan –
Ganesh Venkataramanan was born five miles away from where the Apostle Thomas was martyred in Chennai, India, but Christianity was peripheral to him. His family was Hindu, along with 95% of the population in the area.
But when he went to college, Ganesh became an atheist. Again, it was his surrounding that influenced him. At them Indian Institute of Technology in Madras where he pursued engineering, he surmised that God and science were incompatible.
It wasn’t until he enrolled in Yale University for his master’s degree that his worldview was shattered and he cracked open the door to the possibility that Christianity might be true. There he met Frederick Sigworth Yale School of Medicine, top of his field internationally, who was a Christianity. His curiosity was piqued.
When he graduated Yale and moved to Houston, a super successful entrepreneur introduced him to apologetics: More than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell and The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel.
Particularly interesting was the study of mathematical probabilities that one person could fulfill all the Old Testament prophecies for the Messiah. To fulfill a mere 8 (of more than 300) prophecies, Peter Stoner calculated the chances were one in one hundred quadrillion.
Ganesh was astonished and became a Christian.
“Christianity is an engineer’s dream,” he says. “You can ask hard questions. You don’t have to take bad answers. I could ask questions; I could dig into it.”
Under the pen name Geeves, Ganesh is the author of Let me into Heaven, a fictional account of three computer scientists who find God by asking questions. He’s working as a software engineer.
“I realized that science alone couldn’t answer my deepest questions,” he said. “There had to be something more.”
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