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Objecting to God /
"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 funda...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139117135 1139117130 9780521768351 0521768357 9780521186650 052118665X 9781139127790 1139127799 9780511812477 0511812477 1107217806 9781107217805 1139124528 9781139124522 1283298449 9781283298445 9786613298447 6613298441 1139122878 9781139122870 1139112775 9781139112772 1139114964 9781139114967 |