Biocosm : The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe

In an elegant and lucid style, complexity theorist James N. Gardner proposes that life and intelligence have not emerged in a series of random Darwinian accidents, but are hardwired into the cycle of cosmic creation, evolution, death and rebirth. Originally presented in peer-reviewed scientific journals, Gardner's theory further proposes that our universe has been deliberately engineered to promote life and intelligence and, in fact, requires life and intelligence in order to mediate the reproduction of the cosmos after the Big Crunch. This book is an introduction to the leading cosmologists and evolutionary thinkers.