CONTENTS Preface PART 1 Surveying the Landscape 1. Introduction 10 2. Matters of Evidence and Faith 19 3. A Historical Perspective: The Forgotten Roots of Science and Arguments from Design 26 PART 2 Science and Explanation 4. Science, its Presuppositions, Scope, and Methodology 62 5. Worldviews and Their Relation to Science: Naturalism and its Shortcomings 87 6. Theism and its Relationship to Science: God of Gaps, Complexity of God, and Miracles 110 PART 3 Understanding the Universe and Life 7. Understanding the Universe: The Beginning and Fine-Tuning 140 8.

The Wonder of the Living World 157 9. The Genetic Code 170 10. A Matter of Information 186 11. Algorithmic Information Theory 192 12. Life's Solution: Self-Organization? 207 PART 4 The Modern Synthesis 13. Life's Solution: Evolution? 218 14. Evolution: Asking Hard Questions 231 15. The Nature and Scope of Evolution 241 16.

Natural Selection 260 17. The Edge of Evolution 271 18. The Mathematics of Evolution 280 PART 5 The Information Age 19. Systems Biology 298 20. The Origin of Information: A Word-Based World 315 21. Brain, Mind, and the Quantum World 348 Epilogue: Beyond Science But Not Beyond Reason 365 Notes 375 Index 395.