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Is atheism dead? / Eric Metaxas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Salem Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: xvi, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781684511730
  • 1684511739
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Contents:
Introduction: the grand counter-narrative -- In the beginning was the big bang -- Where science cannot go: the big bang and other singularities -- The fine-tuned planet -- The fine-tuned universe -- More planetary fine-tuning: water and sunlight -- How did life originate? or "You can't get here from there" -- Life is far more complex than we thought -- More on origins of life: now what? -- The evidence of archaeology -- The black obelisk that became a golden spike -- More Biblical archaeology: three misbehaving boys who changed history -- More archaeology: the New Testament manuscripts -- More New Testament archaeology -- Jerusalem in Jesus' day -- Two amazing New Testament discoveries -- The Nazareth home of Jesus -- Ur of the Chaldees discovered: the surprising resilience of the ancient past -- The discovery of Biblical Sodom -- The four horsemen -- Is atheism evil? -- Atheists who found God: Sartre, Flew, and Camus -- Problems with atheism: faith and science are BFFs -- The boundaries of science: more than meets the eye -- The impossible bleakness of materialism -- The founding myth of atheism: Galileo, Copernicus, and the church -- Christianity begat science -- Further problems with atheism -- Atheism unhinged -- Great scientists who were devout Christians -- Conclusions: The meaning of meaning.
Summary: "In a literary showdown with the Four Horsemen of the New Atheism--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris--Metaxas neatly skewers them with their own swords. Along the way he presents breathtaking evidence from the fields of archaeology, nanoscience, and quantum physics that overwhelmingly confirms the accounts of creation in the ancient Hebrew scriptures. He also spotlights the stories of some of the best scientists of the last century--and former leading atheists--whose scholarship and intellectual honesty eventually led them to faith in the very creator they once assured the world did not exist" Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Eric Metaxas, the author of the #1 bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, now releases his hardcover bestseller in paperback.

Is Atheism Dead? is a highly entertaining, impressively wide-ranging, and decidedly provocative answer to that famous 1966 TIME cover that itself provocatively asked "Is God Dead?" In a voice that is by turns witty, muscular, and poetic, Metaxas echoes C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in cheerfully and logically making his case, along the way presenting breathtaking--and sometimes astonishing--new evidence and arguments against the idea of a Creatorless universe. Taken all together, he shows that much we have assumed about the biggest questions of human existence is in fact dramatically outdated -- and is therefore in need of the most urgent reevaluation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-412).

Introduction: the grand counter-narrative -- In the beginning was the big bang -- Where science cannot go: the big bang and other singularities -- The fine-tuned planet -- The fine-tuned universe -- More planetary fine-tuning: water and sunlight -- How did life originate? or "You can't get here from there" -- Life is far more complex than we thought -- More on origins of life: now what? -- The evidence of archaeology -- The black obelisk that became a golden spike -- More Biblical archaeology: three misbehaving boys who changed history -- More archaeology: the New Testament manuscripts -- More New Testament archaeology -- Jerusalem in Jesus' day -- Two amazing New Testament discoveries -- The Nazareth home of Jesus -- Ur of the Chaldees discovered: the surprising resilience of the ancient past -- The discovery of Biblical Sodom -- The four horsemen -- Is atheism evil? -- Atheists who found God: Sartre, Flew, and Camus -- Problems with atheism: faith and science are BFFs -- The boundaries of science: more than meets the eye -- The impossible bleakness of materialism -- The founding myth of atheism: Galileo, Copernicus, and the church -- Christianity begat science -- Further problems with atheism -- Atheism unhinged -- Great scientists who were devout Christians -- Conclusions: The meaning of meaning.

"In a literary showdown with the Four Horsemen of the New Atheism--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris--Metaxas neatly skewers them with their own swords. Along the way he presents breathtaking evidence from the fields of archaeology, nanoscience, and quantum physics that overwhelmingly confirms the accounts of creation in the ancient Hebrew scriptures. He also spotlights the stories of some of the best scientists of the last century--and former leading atheists--whose scholarship and intellectual honesty eventually led them to faith in the very creator they once assured the world did not exist" Provided by publisher.

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