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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 211
EAN num: 9780879751241
ISBN number: 087975124X
Label: Prometheus Books
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 355
Printing Date: 1980-06
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Excellent book, Very convincing, well written, quite easy to understand but some parts are a little vague... Pass it around your local church.
This book mainly tries to show , mostly christian belief, that belief in a god is irrational. It does this by reducing christain belief into the theistic agnostic position.. ie I believe in a god but i have no evidence nor do i have any idea what this god is like... In a nutshell anyways..
This book goes step by step on what an educated atheist might say and then what a theist might say... Although it is not in dialog form... It is just very systematic...
Ive read this book twice and wish i had it here with me now so that i could read it again... Its thick and packs a punch...
I would also recommend Thomas Pains, The Age of Reason ... and of course David Humes, Dialogues concerning natural religion although that book is quite technical if you are not familiar with Hume... Just read this book..
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Atheism is the rage these days, thanks largely to new media-savvy champions who've come to be known as proponents of the "New Atheism." New Atheism takes its cue (and presumably its name) from its insistence that religious claims are incompatible with evolutionary ones and hence immediately suspect, and that religious belief leads to intolerance and violence. Many commentators--sympathetic as well as critical--have pointed out there's not a whole lot of evidence that New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens have much familiarity with traditional philosophical and theological arguments for God. This ignorance both creates serious holes in the arguments but also sometimes leads to them re-inventing wheels and duplicating old (and discredited) arguments.
That's why a reading of the New Atheists really ought to be complemented by Atheism: The Case Against God, a work written by "old atheist" George Smith. Smith clearly knows the philosophical and theological tradition, and he addresses himself to a refutation of that tradition's variety of arguments for the existence of God. He critically examines, for example, both Anselm's ontological argument, Thomas Aquinas' famous Quinquae Viae, and the ever-popular argument(s) from design. He does close linguistic analysis of words such as "God" and "Being," and concludes that they literally make no sense. He provides a historical overview of the classic debate of faith and reason, and he provides his own philosophical analysis. He insists that agnosticism is simply a variety of atheism (and also, interestingly, a variety of theism, depending upon how it's spun). And he concludes with a criticism of theism based on morality that avoids the shrillness and over-generalization too frequently indulged in by the New Atheists (especially Dawkins and Hitchens).
This isn't to say that Smith provides an overwhelmingly compelling "case against God." Each reader will have to weigh his arguments and come to his or her own reasoned conclusions. But what Smith HAS done is to give us a very strong, very readable, and eminently rational argument for atheism that, unlike New Atheism proponents, takes on precisely the issues that need taking on. Highly recommended.
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The title says it all. If you only have time to read one book on atheism, this is the book to read. It covers everything in a very accessible style and only occasionally loses its patience with a very difficult topic.
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I'm glad that there are many books about atheism and natural coming out, because it's a discusion that I don't think should ever end. But to me, the magnum opus of all atheism has already been written, and it's this book. Smith tackles topic after topic effectively and logically. He even discusses 'tangent' topics like Universal Skepticism that I think any philosophically-minded person should be aware of. I can't recommend this book enough--and I mean that to anyone of any belief system who is serious about intellectual honesty and philosophical curiosity.
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Get back in the bible. Read John 10 (particularly 10:10) and quit worrying about something atheists will never prove. Scientists, biologists, etc.. can't even cure some viruses in the world let alone be trusted to solve something as complex as this (they could be way off on a lot of things). If they really find anything it will be in the media fast everyday, all day. Until then (even though it will never happen) Rely on faith. This is just another book and speculation about someone's theory about the world and for a group of atheists to get together and pat each others back. I really don't care about an atheist's religious walk and not going to waste my time trying to prove to a unbeliever who doesn't want to hear or chooses to ignore(God will deal with them). However I do care about someone getting persuaded with this nonsense and if one person hears my message on this post and continues with their personal salvation than the lord is great!! All people are immoral in their own ways and Christians, muslims and atheists have done things that are not great, but being religious or not is not about morality but about your personal salvation and then (if you listen and stay in the word),...morality follows. This book was about profiting and trying to give affirmation to something that lacks hope.
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