God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (Revised)
Evaluates the evidence of modern science in relation to the debate between the atheistic and theistic interpretations of the universe, and provides a fresh basis for discussion.
Chapters:
- War of the worldviews
- The scope and limits of science
- Reduction, reduction, reduction...
- Designer universe?
- Designer biosphere?
- The nature and scope of evolution
- The origin of life
- The genetic code and its origin
- Matters of information
- The monkey machine
- The origin of information
The book has grown out of the author's lengthy experience of lecturing and debating on this subject in the UK, USA, Germany and Russia, and has been written in response to endless requests for the argumentation in written form.
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God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (Revised)
Some commentators claim that science has finally killed the concept of God by virtue of its own all-encompassing explanations of reality. Atheism, they say, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede scientific progress. In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, with impeccable logic, irrefutable documentation, and extraordinary Christian grace, John Lennox invites us to reexamine such claims. Is it really true, he asks, that the nature of science points toward atheism? Could it be possible that theism sits more comfortably with science than atheism? Has science truly buried God or not? "Recent books touting atheism have been grounded more on dyspepsia than on dispassionate reason. In this book John Lennox considers the best, most recent science from physics and biology, and demonstrates that the picture looks far different from what we've been told." --Michael Behe Author, Darwin's Black Box
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John Lennox
John C. Lennox (DPhil.(Oxon) Ph.D (Cantab). DSc(Wales) is Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science at Green College, Visiting Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, and Lecturer at Wycliffe-Hall, all at the University of Oxford. He has been a Senior Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Wuerzburg and Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany.
He has published over 70 articles in Algebra (Group Theory) and co-authored two research monographs in the Oxford Mathematical Monographs series - The Theory of Subnormal Subgroups (with S.E. Stonehower) 1987 and The Theory of Infinite Soluble Groups (with D.J.S. Robinson) 2004. He is currently particularly interested in the interface between science, philosophy and theology and lectures in Science and Religion at Oxford University.
He has written some engaging books helpful to those understanding the relationship between Faith and Science including God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?.
Koorong-Editorial Review.