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The God Confusion - Why Nobody Knows the Answer to the Ultimate Question (Hardcover, New)
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The God Confusion - Why Nobody Knows the Answer to the Ultimate Question (Hardcover, New)
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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 evangelise 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. It argues from a sceptical, empiricist perspective that
the philosophical reasoning at the heart of these arguments is
logically incapable of moving beyond speculation to any kind of
proof. It concludes that the only credible philosophical position
is 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not to appear increasingly outdated and ridiculous in the eyes of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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