By Design

By Design
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By Design: Science and the Search for God

Information on By Design from the publisher:

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 "science and religion dialogue," an intriguing conversation that stretches from the laboratories of Nobel Prize winners to the inner sancta of the Vatican. The other is the "intelligent design movement," a grouping of independent scientists and philosophers whose research suggests that material laws as they are understood today may be incapable of accounting for the subtleties of evolution or of human consciousness. In By Design we meet provocative figures who dare mention a creator in the same breath with scientific theorems -- astrophysicist George Ellis; origin-of-life researcher Harold Morowitz; mathematician William Dembski; and law professor Phillip Johnson, the leading anti-Darwinist of our era. Witham demonstrates that while the ultimate outcomes of the intelligent design movement and the dialogue between faith and reason are still uncertain, what was once a battleground between God and science has now become a meeting ground.

Description of Larry Witham, author of By Design:

In this book we meet provocative figures who dare mention a creator in the same breath with scientific theorems--astrophysicist George Ellis; origin-of-life researcher Harold Morowitz; mathematician William Dembski; and law professor Phillip Johnson, the leading anti-Darwinist of our era. Witham demonstrates that while the ultimate outcomes of the intelligent design movement and the dialogue between faith and reason are still uncertain, what was once a battleground between God and science has now become a meeting ground.