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Why God Won't Go Away

Why God Won't Go Away 1

Engaging With The New Atheism

by Alister McGrath
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Publication Date: 17/02/2011
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The recent rise of the New Atheism has aroused great general interest, thrown up questions of fundamental importance, and started a fascinating conversation. Why God Won't Go Away invites us to join in.

The volume opens with a survey of the main ideas of the New Atheism, as expressed in the works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens. We then examine the core views of the movement closely, making due reference to its 'virtual community' of websites and blogs. Subjects explored include: whether religion is delusional and evil, the belief that human beings are fundamentally good, whether we should have faith only in what can be proved through reason and science, the idea that the best hope for humanity is a 'New Enlightenment'

The result is a lively and highly thought-provoking volume that poses a number of interesting questions. Why is religion experiencing a resurgence in the twenty-first century, when we are meant to have grown out of such a primitive fixation? Has the New Atheism's fascination with rationality led to a fatal underestimation of the longing of the human heart to adore? And if, as Christopher Hitchens writes in exasperation, religion is 'ineradicable', doesn't this tiresome fact suggest that dismissing belief in God as irrational and unscientific might just be a waste of time?
ISBN:
9780281063871
9780281063871
Category:
Agnosticism & atheism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-02-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
SPCK Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
128
Dimensions (mm):
216x138x10mm
Weight:
0.18kg

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This book is the opposite of his last book with this comment:
"This volume engages with the relative absence and underrepresentation of female voices in the field of science and religion, which tends to be dominated by male academics who are in the later stages of their careers. It makes a valuable contribution to correcting this imbalance by showcasing the work of a talented set of rising female scholars, which is not necessarily explicitly feminist in content or approach. All the authors featured are at a relatively early stage in their careers with diverse backgrounds and interests. Engaging with traditional and new questions, they promise to contribute much to the future development of the field of science and religion"

Don't talk me about 'a talented set of rising female scholars (s. beneath) since the 'male academics' like Alister Mcgrath) just let them copy all the Dutch books about the UNIVERSAL SOUNDHELIX (klankhelix, Lauthelix) which were on Research Gate, but moved out by the same 'male academics' who did never realise that there is a relation between science and religion. The soundhelix was rediscovered by a woman in 2011. 'old, male academics' did accuse her of sexual harassment to get rid of her! Awful! She did find out that the 'white women of the lost millennium' already knew this universal pattern in language. Women were not only the first scientist, but they are still the best because of their knowledge about the stringtheory in relation not with 'religie' but 'regalo' (gift). Helixing back kur'an, bible and tora we get nature science, since their is not a male God, but only Mother Nature. See also my comment about 'Logic and Islam' (Wahab) on boeken.cafe and goodreads.

Mcgrath can pack his empty lugage, wasted money for all those years he did not understand the universal soundhelix with the help we can reconstruct the past (and than correct), but also 'spell' (soundhelix) the future.

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