Decoding the Language of God

In his bestselling book The Language of God Francis Collins-the director of the National Institutes of Health and the scientist who led the Human Genome Project-attempted to harmonize the findings of scientific research with Christian belief. In this response to Collins's work fellow geneticist George C. Cunningham presents a point-by-point rebuttal of The Language of God arguing that there is no scientifically acceptable evidence to support belief in a personal God and much that discredits it.Written with admirable clarity for the nonscientist Decoding the Language of God covers much of the same ground addressed by Collins in his book: the origins of moral behavior the difficulty of reconciling belief in a good God with the existence of evil.and anthropic coincidences as evidence of God as creator.Cunningham also devotes chapters to the unreliability of the Bible as a basis for belief; the conflict between naturalistic explanations of reality which are anchored in scientific research and supernatural interpretations which are not; and the many difficulties in conceptualizing the origins of the universe in terms of a personal God. Unlike recent hostile attacks on religious belief Cunningham's respectful well-reasoned discussion will appeal to open-minded people across the whole spectrum of belief and unbelief.