Authors@Google: Steve Paulson - Is the universe ''designed'' for life?

Hmmmm . . . . biocentrism. Steve Paulson talks about his book, Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science, now in paperback.

Is the universe ''designed'' for life? Will science ever unlock the mysteries of the human mind or explain the origins of religion? In "Atoms and Eden", award-winning journalist Steve Paulson explores these questions in an unprecedented collection of interviews with the major figures in the science and religion debate, including Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, E. O. Wilson, Francis Collins, Jane Goodall, and Steven Weinberg.

Steve Paulson is the executive producer of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program "To the Best of Our Knowledge." He is a recipient of the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship in Science and Religion. He has written for Salon, Slate and other publications, and has produced feature stories for NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

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