Book Description
The growth of science and a correspondingly scientific way
of looking at evidence have for the last three centuries slowly been
gaining ground over religious explanations of the cosmos and mankind's
place in it. However, not only is secularism now under renewed attack
from religious fundamentalism, but it has also been widely claimed that
the scientific evidence itself points strongly to a universe
deliberately fine-tuned for life to evolve in it. In addition, certain
aspects of human life, like consciousness and the ability to recognise
the existence of universal moral standards, seem completely resistant to
evolutionary explanation. In this book Colin Howson analyses in detail
the evidence which is claimed to support belief in God's existence and
argues that the claim is not well-founded. Moreover, there is very
compelling evidence that an all-powerful, all-knowing God not only does
not exist but cannot exist, a conclusion both surprising and
provocative.
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