Arguing about Gods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arguing about Gods write by Graham Oppy. This book was released on 2006-09-04. Arguing about Gods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Graham Oppy examines arguments for and against the existence of God. He shows that none of these arguments is powerful enough to change the minds of reasonable participants in debates on the question of the existence of God. His conclusion is supported by detailed analyses of the arguments as well as by the development of a theory about the purpose of arguments and the criteria that should be used in judging whether or not arguments are successful. Oppy discusses the work of a wide array of philosophers, including Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Hume and, more recently, Plantinga, Dembski, White, Dawkins, Bergman, Gale and Pruss.
The Best Argument against God
The Best Argument against God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Best Argument against God write by G. Oppy. This book was released on 2013-07-23. The Best Argument against God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. .... compares two theories—Naturalism and Theism—on a wide range of relevant data. It concludes that Naturalism should be preferred to Theism on that data. The central idea behind the argument is that, while Naturalism is simpler than Theism, there is no relevant data that Naturalism fails to explain at least as well as Theism does.
Everybody Is Wrong About God
Everybody Is Wrong About God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everybody Is Wrong About God write by James A. Lindsay. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Everybody Is Wrong About God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A call to action to address people's psychological and social motives for a belief in God, rather than debate the existence of God With every argument for theism long since discredited, the result is that atheism has become little more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. Thus, engaging in interminable debate with religious believers about the existence of God has become exactly the wrong way for nonbelievers to try to deal with misguided—and often dangerous—belief in a higher power. The key, author James Lindsay argues, is to stop that particular conversation. He demonstrates that whenever people say they believe in "God," they are really telling us that they have certain psychological and social needs that they do not know how to meet. Lindsay then provides more productive avenues of discussion and action. Once nonbelievers understand this simple point, and drop the very label of atheist, will they be able to change the way we all think about, talk about, and act upon the troublesome notion called "God."
The Language of God
The Language of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language of God write by Francis Collins. This book was released on 2008-09-04. The Language of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?
Arguing for Atheism
Arguing for Atheism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arguing for Atheism write by Robin Le Poidevin. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Arguing for Atheism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2004. In Arguing for Atheism, Robin Le Poidevin addresses the question of whether theism-the view that there is a personal, transcendent creator of the universe - solves the deepest mysteries of existence. Philosophical defences of theism have often been based on the idea that it explains things which atheistic approaches cannot: for example, why the universe exists, and how there can be objective moral values. The main contention of Arguing for Atheism is that the reverse is true: that in fact theism fails to explain many things it claims to, while atheism can explain some of the things it supposedly leaves mysterious. It is also argued that religion need not depend on belief in God. Designed as a text for university courses in the philosophy of religion and metaphysics, this book’s accessible style and numerous explanations of important philosophical concepts and positions will also make it attractive to the general reader.
