This book will show that reports of God’s decease have “been grossly exaggerated,” to appropriate a quote from Mark Twain.3 Instead, the truth is just the opposite of what Dawkins, Barash, and numerous other popular spokespersons for science have insisted. The properties of the universe and of life—specifically as they pertain to understanding their origins—are just “what we should expect” if a transcendent and purposive intelligence has acted in the history of life and the cosmos.
