We are here either by fluke, or because there was no alternative,
or because we were created with a purpose. Ward, who is Regius
Professor of Divinity at Oxford, posits the third stance as his
starting point and unravels an elegant and marvellously readable
antithesis to the writings of those who claim with 'virulent
contempt' that God is dead - or never existed in the first place.
One must postulate God, says Ward, to best explain why the universe
is how it is. In the process, he deals in some detail with the work
of popular science writers such as Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking
and Peter Atkins, picking apart their arguments with apparent ease.
He devotes a good section of the book to Darwin and theories of
evolution, and concludes his neatly argued, gracious and
authoritative case with an examination of consciousness and
suffering. (Kirkus UK)
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.
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