A Mission to Convert

Scientists' interest in religion seems to come in waves. One arrived after the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Another followed in the 1930s and 1940s, inspired by surprising revelations from quantum mechanics, which suggested the insufficiency of conventional physical theories of the universe. And now scientists are once again writing about religion, apparently provoked this time by the controversy surrounding intelligent design. (H. Allen Orr, A Mission to Convert, New York Review of Books, Vol.54 No.1)



More Orr:
● Other Orr articles in New York Review of Books
● No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence (Boston Review)
● Darwin v. Intelligent Design (Again) (Boston Review)
● Devolution: Why intelligent design isn’t (The New Yorker)

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Intelligent Design from Wikipedia