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> In the Beginning
And Other Essays on Intelligent Design
In this wide-ranging collection of essays on origins, mathematician Granville Sewell looks at the big bang, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, and the evolution of life. He concludes that while there is much in the history of life that seems to suggest natural causes, there is nothing to support Charles Darwin's idea that natural selection of random variations can explain major evolutionary advances ("easily the dumbest idea ever taken seriously by science," he calls it). Sewell explains why evolution is a fundamentally different and much more difficult problem than others solved by science, and why increasing numbers of scientists are now recognizing what has long been obvious to the layman, that there is no explanation possible without design. This book summarizes many of the traditional arguments for intelligent design, but presents some powerful new arguments as well.
"As the debate over intelligent design grows increasingly heated, with critics engaging in vicious polemics, it is refreshing to find a discussion of the topic that is calm, thoughtful, and far-ranging, with no sense of having to advance an agenda or decimate the opposition. In this regard, Granville Sewell's In the Beginning succeeds brilliantly." -- William A. Dembski, author of The Design Inference and The End of Christianity
By Granville Sewell
Paperback: 142 pages
Publisher: Discovery Institute Press (2010)
ISBN-10: 0-9790141-4-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-9790141-4-7
Retail price $14.95
Science/Evolution/Intelligent Design
