Autorentext

John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College. He lectures on Faith and Science for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He has lectured in many universities around the world, including Austria and the former Soviet Union. He is particularly interested in the interface of Science, Philosophy and Theology. Lennox has been part of numerous public debates defending the Christian faith. He debated Richard Dawkins on "The God Delusion" in the University of Alabama (2007) and on "Has Science buried God?" in the Oxford Museum of Natural History (2008). He has also debated Christopher Hitchens on the New Atheism (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and the question of "Is God Great?" (Samford University, 2010), as well as Peter Singer on the topic of "Is there a God?" (Melbourne, 2011). John is the author of a number of books on the relations of science, religion and ethics. He and his wife Sally live near Oxford.

Klappentext

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.

  Inhalt

  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