Author

Publication

1996-11-25 - Oneworld Publications

Language

English

Word Count

53,000 words, Guess

Page Count

212 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781851681167
  • Open LibraryOL8971431M

Classifications

  • LCCBL240.2 .W373x 1996

Description

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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