The Case for Divine Design - Softcover

Frank Salisbury

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555179002 ISBN 13: 9781555179007

Publisher: Cedar Fort, 2006

Synopsis

• Was creation an act of God, or did it occur by natural processes? • Can science logically disprove the existence of God? • Does the apparent design of living things point to the work of a Creator? Author Frank B. Salisbury, retired professor of biology and ecology and former head of the Plant Science Department at Utah State University, answers these questions in this important book that brings understanding and respect to the ongoing debate regarding the origin of life. In The Case for Divine Design, the author argues that we must find God on our own and not be enticed by scientific evidence to believe or disbelieve. His own belief in God, coupled with decades of study and research that he shares in this book, has led him to appreciate the beauty of an Intelligent Creation.

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About the Author

Frank Boyer Salisbury grew up in Springville and Salt Lake City, Utah. After a year in the Army Air Force, he served as a missionary in Switzerland. As a teenager, he led hikes and taught nature and crafts at two scout camps, where he began a lifelong fascination with biology in general and botany in particular—as well as with all the physical sciences. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in botany and biochemistry at the University of Utah, he earned his doctorate in plant physiology and geochemistry in 1955 at the California Institute of Technology. After teaching ecology, general biology, and other subjects at Pomona College for one year, he spent eleven years at Colorado State University before moving in 1966 to Utah State University to become the department head of the newly organized Plant Science Department in the College of Agriculture. He resigned as department head after four years to spend more time writing, continuing at Utah State for a total of thirty-one years. He has written or cowritten fourteen books, including a basic text in plant physiology that went through four editions and was translated into several languages. His two books on science and religion are Truth: by Reason and by Revelation and The Creation. His research projects have involved the physiology of flowering, plant growth under snow, plant growth in controlled environments (to provide food and oxygen for astronauts), and plant responses to gravity. He led a project to grow wheat in the Russian space station Mir. He spent sabbaticals in Germany, Austria, and Israel (at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). He also took a leave of absence for a year with the Atomic Energy Commission (now DOE). Salisbury retired in 1997, and with his wife, L. Marilyn Olson, served in the Ohio Colum bus Mission, after which they returned to live in Salt Lake City, where he has since been working on writing projects. They are the parents of seven children. He is now married to Mary Thorpe Salisbury.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cedar Fort
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555179002
• ISBN 13: 9781555179007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262