This book is an attempt to reestablish a hope that the universe is somehow directed, among students of evolution who have turned to atheism. To do that, one must confront Richard Dawkins of Oxford University. He holds the atheistic command in the battle between random biological evolution and biological directedness whom some call intelligent design. He holds the command but not the science. Dawkins is an atheist first, and a Neo-Darwinist second, for his atheism is a belief, a religion. A...

Gudbrandsson på Tofta gård avlider och sterbhuset befinnes konkursmässigt. Den ende sonen Ulf står där med två tomma händer så när som på ett litet torp som han ärvt efter sin farmor. Intill torpet ligger herrgården Hed, vars nuvarande ägare så helt går upp i vetenskapliga forskningar att han inte märker vad som försiggår omkring honom. Egendomens skötsel dirigeras av ägarens broder som för ett strängt regemente, särskilt mot husets unga dotter som får finna sig i förödmjukande inskränknin...

I and millions of readers without a scientific education were delighted when Stephen Hawking published A Brief History of Time. Its purpose was to give us an insight into how science, cosmologist especially, tackle the "questions that are of interest to us all,"where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? The insight he imparted opened questions about Hawking's own methods and conclusions: were they shared by most cosmologists? Did the...