Gunning For God: Why The New Atheists Are Missing The Target
Since the twin towers crashed to the ground on 9/11 there has been no end to claims that religion 'is dangerous', 'kills', or 'poisons everything'. And if religion is the problem with the world, say the New Atheists, the answer is simple: get rid of it. But are things really so straightforward? Tackling Hawking, Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and a newcomer in the field - the French philosopher Michel Onfray - John Lennox points out some of the fallacies in the New Atheist approach, arguing that their irrational and unscientific methodology leaves them guilty of the very obstinate foolishness they criticise in dogmatic religious folks. Erudite and wide-ranging, Gunning for God packs some debilitating punches. However, it also puts forward new ideas about the nature of God and Christianity that will give Dawkins' best friends and worst enemies alike some stimulating food for thought.
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Gunning For God: Why The New Atheists Are Missing The Target
Since the twin towers crashed to the ground on 9/11 there has been no end to claims that religion 'is dangerous', 'kills', or 'poisons everything'. And if religion is the problem with the world, say the New Atheists, the answer is simple: get rid of it. But are things really so straightforward? Tackling Hawking, Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and a newcomer in the field - the French philosopher Michel Onfray - John Lennox points out some of the fallacies in the New Atheist approach, arguing that their irrational and unscientific methodology leaves them guilty of the very obstinate foolishness they criticise in dogmatic religious folks. Erudite and wide-ranging, Gunning for God packs some debilitating punches. However, it also puts forward new ideas about the nature of God and Christianity that will give Dawkins' best friends and worst enemies alike some stimulating food for thought.
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John Lennox
John C. Lennox (DPhil.(Oxon) Ph.D (Cantab). DSc(Wales) is Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science at Green College, Visiting Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, and Lecturer at Wycliffe-Hall, all at the University of Oxford. He has been a Senior Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Wuerzburg and Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany.
He has published over 70 articles in Algebra (Group Theory) and co-authored two research monographs in the Oxford Mathematical Monographs series - The Theory of Subnormal Subgroups (with S.E. Stonehower) 1987 and The Theory of Infinite Soluble Groups (with D.J.S. Robinson) 2004. He is currently particularly interested in the interface between science, philosophy and theology and lectures in Science and Religion at Oxford University.
He has written some engaging books helpful to those understanding the relationship between Faith and Science including God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?.
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