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The triumphal Darwin Centennial in 1959 seemed once and for all to end the argument between science and religion that had been raging since Thomas Huxley took up the cause of evolution in the Victorian era. 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 agent: science itself. Cutting-edge research in physics, biochemistry, genetics, information theory and neuroscience are now causing thinkers to wonder anew about whether some '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 in public education.
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