Finding common ground between the world of biological science and the world of faith.
Contents
Figures 10
Preface 11
Introduction 12
1 The Historical Roots of Purpose in Biology 18
2 Biology’s Grand Narrative 58
3 Biology’s Molecular Constraints 104
4 Biology, Randomness, Chance, and Purpose 140
5 The Christian Matrix Within Which Biology 179
Flourishes
6 Death, Pain, Suffering, and the God of Love 218
Postscript 248
Notes 250
Bibliography 257
Index 271
Denis Alexander is the Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute
for Science and Religion,St Edmund's College, Cambridge, where he
is a Fellow.Dr Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular
Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte
Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute,
Cambridge. Prior to that he was at the Imperial Cancer Research
Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), andspent 15
years developing university departments and laboratories overseas,
latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical
Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. There
he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics.
He was initially an Open Scholar at Oxford reading Biochemistry,
before obtaining a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of
Psychiatry in London.
Dr Alexander writes,lectures and broadcasts widely in the field of
science and religion. His Monarch titles include: Creation or
Evolution and Is There Purpose inBiology?.
"A much-needed book on a crucial topic." Jeff Hardin, Professor of
Zoology, University of Wisconsin
"This book corrects the popular bleak view of a pitiless,
indifferent universe and instead presents a most welcome view of a
world of purpose." Cees Dekker, Professor of Nanobiology, Delft
University of Technology
"An ideal starting point for those who believe evolution is
incompatible with God yet are open to explore further." Andrew
Halestrap, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, University of
Bristol
"Alexander's book breathes wonder for God's creation, and love for
the science that studies it." René van Woudenberg, Professor of
Epistemology and Metaphysics, Free University of Amsterdam
"The author makes a careful and convincing case that modern biology
is consistent with belief in a world imbued with divine meaning."
Peter Harrison, Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in
the Humanities, University of Queensland
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