God’s Undertaker

If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science.

In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very carefully.

This book 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. The chapters include:

• 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
• and, The origin of information.

Now updated and expanded, God's Undertaker is an invaluable contribution to the debate about science's relationship to religion.

Contents
Preface 7
1. War of the worldviews 15
2. The scope and limits of science 31
3. Reduction, reduction, reduction… 47
4. Designer universe? 58
5. Designer biosphere? 78
6. The nature and scope of evolution 100
7. The origin of life 122
8. The genetic code and its origin 135
9. Matters of information 148
10. The monkey machine 163
11. The origin of information 174
12. Violating nature? The legacy of David Hume 193
Epilogue 207
References 211
Index 222