Nowhere Else to Go
A Former TOPGUN Instructor on Faith, Science, and the Road Between
What happens when you deconstruct your faith—only to find it still there?
In military aviation, there is an old joke about the “I believe” button—the point where explanation has gone as far as it can, and sometimes you simply have to accept that something works. Former TOPGUN instructor Scott Walters spent years unwilling to press it when it came to Christianity.
Instead, he began pulling apart the faith he had inherited and examining its claims for himself.
Nowhere Else to Go follows that investigation from the origin and apparent order of the universe through mathematics, physics, biology, consciousness, morality, history, the identity and resurrection of Jesus, and the ancient Christian expectation that He will return.
Refusing to accept packaged answers or “gotcha” arguments, Walters holds those questions to the same standard used in a TOPGUN debrief: establish the facts, mercilessly analyze the evidence, apply the lessons learned—and move forward.
Part investigation, part memoir, Nowhere Else to Go is not a demand that you hit the “I believe” button.
It is an examination of whether there are good reasons to press it.
Featuring a theological foreword by Dr. Darrell L. Bock and a scientific foreword by Dr. Stephen Cobb.
“Here is a book which takes you on a high-speed ride through physics, history, medicine, philosophy, mathematics and the Bible accompanied by a skilled instructor who is passionate about their connections and has asked the deeper questions that many of us have also asked. Scott Walters has a life story that is compelling, an honesty that is disarming and a faith that is authentic.”
REV’D PROFESSOR DAVID WILKINSON · ASTROPHYSICIST AND THEOLOGIAN · DURHAM UNIVERSITY, UK“If you’re serious about sharing your faith, you need to read this book. Scott brilliantly brings together science and Scripture to show that although Jesus is the King of Kings, He came to die for wicked people — Army Rangers, TOPGUN naval aviators, and people just like you and me.”
DR. JEFF STRUECKER · US ARMY RANGER HALL OF FAME · CHAPLAIN · BLACK HAWK DOWN VETERAN“Most apologetics books are written for people who already believe. Scott Walters wrote this one for the people who left — and he begins by telling them, honestly, that he understands why. This is the book I will hand to the doubter, the deconstructing, and the wounded — not because it pretends to prove everything, but because it refuses to pretend at all.”
TOM KANG · FOUNDING & LEAD PASTOR · NEWSTORY CHURCH, LOS ANGELES“This book is different. Maybe his career in the cockpit of an F-14 gave Walters a perspective from above to think about God, this big world, and our relation to them both. Or maybe his training as a RIO gave him unique abilities to probe deeply into things hard to see. Whatever the reason, the result is a book that thinks and feels about the deep things of life in serious and honest ways. With a skillful turn of phrase, penetrating questions, and shockingly honest reflections, Walters successfully helps us more clearly see and think about Christ. While aimed at doubters and questioners, many disciples of Jesus could be aided by these pages.”
DR. EDWARD W. KLINK III · SENIOR PASTOR, HOPE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH · AUTHOR OF JOHN (ZONDERVAN EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY)