The The Mysterious Way: Enigma, Origins, Evolution

Alfred Horace Davis was a man of the Victorian age with an enquiring mind whose deliberations spanned religious philosophy and quantum physics. He spent the pre-war years at the National Physical Laboratory where he was an expert on acoustics, winning the Simms Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1931 for a paper on "Silencing Aircraft" and publishing several books on acoustics.

During the Second World War he worked on underwater explosions and was closely associated with the science behind the Dam Busters' raid. After the war, he worked with William Penney, later Lord Penney, the father of Britain's atomic bomb.

This was his last book, discovered after his death in his papers as a faded carbon copy. Beautifully written, it gives a concise review of the development of scientific thought; outlines the history of science from the origins of life through relativity and evolution to the limits of the cosmos; and touches on the development of philosophical and religious thought. The book is also a charming personal account of the path through life of a once deeply religious man, born in the 19th century, who made major contributions to science through the 20th century, questioning his faith along the way. The final section integrates these diverse threads to re-evaluate the enigma of God.