To Helix: I doubt that. He is an atheist and Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University.
He strongly defends evolution but is a rare person in that he is willing to be honest about its pitfalls in his own area of expertise.
Here is another quote from him, same book:
"We take pride on our superior understanding and our masterful technology, but it is plain that these were bought at substantial cost to human self-esteem. Not so long ago, Western man saw himself as God's own handiwork, dwelling upon the very pivot of creation. Contemporary humanity lives in much reduced circumstances, stuck on a small planet circling a mid-sized star, one among billions in an unremarkable galaxy, and there are billions more galaxies out there. The findings of biologists cut even closer to the bone. They compel us to admit that we humans, like all other organisms, are transient constellations of jostling molecules, brought forth by a mindless game of chance devoid of plan or intent. For anyone who takes science seriously, it becomes ever harder to believe that behind the appearances abides a cosmic mind that is even remotely comprehensible to us, or one that has the slightest concern for human welfare, personal or collective. In the absence of such a transcendent presence, many of the premises of civilizaiton lose their historical moorings: that human life is sacred, that we can know right from wrong, that we are here to some purpose and that our little lives have larger meaning. We cannot go home again. But it is not at all self-evident that, absent a belief in powers greater than ourselves, a decent and civilized society can be sustained for long." (255)