Ebook: The devil's delusion: atheism and its scientific pretensions
Author: David Berlinski
- Tags: Atheism, Religion and science, RELIGION, General
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Basic Books
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a far larger movement-one that now includes much of the scientific community. "The attack on traditional religious thought," writes David Berlinski in The Devil's Read more...
Abstract: Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a far larger movement-one that now includes much of the scientific community. "The attack on traditional religious thought," writes David Berlinski in The Devil's Delusion, "marks the consolidation in our time of science as the single system of belief in which rational men and women might place their faith, and if not their faith, then certainly th