Answering The New Atheists: How Science Points To God And To The Benefits Of Christianity (Philosophy Of Religion) - 9781622734115

This book engages the physical/natural sciences, social science, philosophy, and history to answer the arguments of ¿new atheism.¿ It shows that evidence from these diverse disciplines constitutes clear signposts to God and the benefits of Christianity for societies, families, and individuals. In the face of increasing attacks on Christianity by militant new atheists, Christians should be able to robustly defend their beliefs in the language spoken by Christianity¿s detractors¿science. Atheists claim that science and religion are incompatible and in constant conflict, but this is assuredly not true. Many historians of science aver that science was given its impetus by the Christian principle that a rational God wants us to discover his fingerprints on nature. Furthermore, science itself (particularly physics) has forced many top-rate physicists (including Nobel Prize winners) who have thought deeply about the philosophical meaning of their work to accept God as the Creator of everything. The book rebuts the destructive agenda of the new atheists who want God banned from the public square. It first examines what new atheism is and demolishes its claim that Christianity is harmful by showing the many benefits it has for freedom and democracy, morality, longevity, and physical and mental health. It then turns to the physical and natural sciences which atheists see as God's Undertaker. The Big Bang and cosmic fine-tuning, the unimaginable improbability of factors that make this planet habitable, and the multiverse, often called the ¿last refuge of the desperate atheist,¿ engages physics. Subsequent chapters engage chemistry and biology as we explore the very problematic issues of the origin and evolution of life. A number of famous non-religious scientists have claimed that abiogenesis (life from non-life) is impossible, as well as contesting the notion that we can extrapolate from micro to macroevolution. Finally, God-of-the-gaps arguments and the issues of free will and evil are examined.

• | Author: Anthony Walsh
• | Publisher: Vernon Press
• | Publication Date: May 04, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 210 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1622734114
• | ISBN-13: 9781622734115