By Design Science and the Search for God

Name: By Design Science and the Search for God
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ISBN: 9781594030437

ISBN-10: 159403043X

ISBN-13: 9781594030437

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Authors: Larry Witham

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By the late 1950s, as far as science was concerned, God was either dead or irrelevant -- case closed. But in the past two decades, as prize-winning science writer Larry Witham shows in this brilliant book of people and ideas, the case has been reopened by an unlikely hand: science itself. Cutting-edge research in physics, biochemistry, genetics, information theory and neuroscience is now causing thinkers to wonder anew whether "intentional" mind, design or fine-tuning in nature's laws was required for the development of life, and to challenge Darwinian and materialist strongholds in the laboratory and public education. The story Witham tells involves two interrelated movements. One is the…

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

LARRY WITHAM is a veteran journalist and is the author of twelve books, including Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America and Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion.



Preface


Rethinking Science



Darwin Triumphant



Science in the Dock


Intimations of Design



The Cosmic Center



Looking for Light



The Dialogue



Life's Origin



The Movement



By Design


The Human Dimension



The War of Words



The Tree of Life



Mind and Brain



Leaps of Faith


Acknowledgments


Bibliographical Essay


Index