| God Chance and Necessity Contributor(s): Ward, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1851681167 ISBN-13: 9781851681167 Publisher: ONEWorld Publications OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2010 Annotation: The 'new materialism' argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology (Stephen Hawking, Peter Atkins), from biology (Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins) and from sociobiology (Michael Ruse), and exposes a number of fallacies and weaknesses. With a carefully argued, point-by-point refutation of scientific atheism, God, Chance and Necessity shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God, but actually points to the existence of God as the best explanation of how things are the way they are. Thus it sets out to demolish the claims of books like The Selfish Gene, and to show that the overwhelming appearance of design in nature is not deceptive. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 215 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.34" W x 8.51" (0.63 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: The 'new materialism' argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology, from biology and from sociobiology and exposes a number of crucial fallacies and weaknesses. With a carefully argued, point by point refutation of scientific atheism, God, Chance and Necessity shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God, but actually points to the existence of God as the best explanation of how things are the way they are. Thus it sets out to demolish the claims of books like The Selfish Gene, and to show that the overwhelming appearance of design in nature is not deceptive. |
