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The God Confusion - Why Nobody Knows the Answer to the Ultimate Question (Paperback)
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The God Confusion - Why Nobody Knows the Answer to the Ultimate Question (Paperback)
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What is God? Does he exist? Can we know? The God Confusion offers a
down-to-earth beginner's guide for anyone interested in these
questions. It does not evangelize for God and religion or, indeed,
for atheism, secularism and science. Instead, it explores in a
witty yet objective and balanced way the idea of God and the
strengths and weaknesses of the standard arguments for his
existence. Gary Cox shows that the philosophical reasoning at the
heart of these arguments is logically incapable of moving beyond
speculation to any kind of proof. The only credible philosophical
position is therefore agnosticism. The God Confusion defends
science generally and the theory of evolution in particular. It
argues that if religion is not to appear increasingly outdated and
ridiculous in the eyes of free-thinking, educated people, it must
accommodate science and accept that science has replaced the old
God of the gaps as an explanation of natural phenomena. Concluding
that God may or may not exist, on the grounds that science,
philosophy and theology are inherently incapable of proving or
disproving his existence, The God Confusion acknowledges that
religious faith based on a deliberate commitment to live as though
there is a moral God is a coherent notion and a worthwhile, even
prudent enterprise. At the same time, it rejects the idea of inner
certainty as mere wishful thinking, arguing that it is not a
coherent basis for belief and is simply bad faith.
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