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The writings of the New Atheists are especially challenging to the emerging generation who are skeptical of authority and have not been given answers to the hows and whys of faiths honest questions. For these readers especially, authors Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow have penned an accessible yet rigorous look at the arguments of the New Atheists. Writing from a distinctively Christian perspective, McDowell and Morrow lay out the facts so that the emerging generation can make up their own mind after considering all the evidence. Divided into two partsthe first addressing the scientific and philosophical challenges to belief in God and the second dealing with the moral and biblical challengesIs God Just a Human Invention? will respond to each major argument in a way that is balanced, thorough, and easy to understand.
McDowell and Morrow believe that the current religious landscape is both an opportunity and a challenge for people of faith.Now is the time to respond.
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Finally, a book about the New Atheism that is not only hard-hitting, but also accessible and engaging for the average reader. Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow have assembled some of the finest thinkers in the Christian world and have turned them loose to provide clear and articulate answers to the questions backyard skeptics in our lives ask. You get only a few pages into this book before you see the shallowness and blindness of the popular New Atheism and, by stark contrast, the rationality of belief in the God of the Bible. This is a book to buy for all of your skeptical coworkers, neighbors, or family members. Then challenge them to meet with you weekly as you work through the chapters. They (and you) will never be the same.
Craig J. Hazen, PhD
Founder and director of the MA program in Christian Apologetics, Biola University, and author of Five Sacred Crossings
Fashion trends come and go. Music trends come and go. New ways of challenging historical Christian faith come and go. Truth lasts. But sadly, many miss the difference between truth and trends. In another time period of challenges to faith, this book provides well- thought-out , intelligent, and very practical responses. These are the questions that we cannot ignore today. Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow guide us to see unshakeable truth in the midst of what can feel like unnerving and scary questions.
Dan Kimball
Author of They Like Jesus but Not the Church
Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow ask questions that deserve to be discussed between believers and their atheist friends. I hope this book will be a springboard for that dialogue. I, for one, want to debate it with them!
David Fitzgerald
Atheist author/activist and director of the Atheist Film Festival and Evolutionpalooza!
Is God Just a Human Invention? And Seventeen Other QuestionsRaised by the New Atheists
2010, 2011 by Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow
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To our professors at Talbot School of Theology.
You taught us not only how to love God with our hearts and souls, but also with our minds.
Oxford Atheists
I therefore put to my former fellow-atheists the simple central question: What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute a reason for you to at least consider the existence of a superior Mind?
Antony Flew
On March 26, 1941, little Clinton made his grand entrance into the world in Nairobi. The expansive Kenyan skies would be his first laboratory and would launch his investigation of a very big world. By the age of six, Clinton was already boring his sister with facts about the planets and how they worked. Eight years later, his family moved back to England (his father joined the Allied Forces in Britain during World War II). It was the big questions of lifeWhy are we here? Where did we come from? What is our destiny?that led Clinton to science. But around the age of sixteen, after encountering Darwinism for the first time, he lost his harmless Anglican faith and went off to Balliol College at Oxford University. Upon graduation in 1962, he decided to continue his studies at Oxford by pursuing a doctorate in zoology , specializing in ethology, under Niko Tinbergen. Then, following a brief stint lecturing at the University of California at Berkeley, Clinton returned to Oxford as a professor in 1970.
In 1953, young Alister made his grand entrance in the capital So, in 1971, Alister was off to Oxford University to pursue a doctorate in chemistry, specializing in molecular biophysics. And after a season of teaching at Cambridge University and other professional opportunities , he joined the faculty at Oxford in the early 1990s.
Both Clinton and Alister cut their intellectual teeth on atheism . One of these boys would grow up to doubt his atheism; the other would fully embrace it. One would come to be known by such colorful titles as the Devils Chaplain and Darwins Rottweiler; the other would doubt the intellectual foundations of atheism and go on to earn a second doctoratethis time in theology. Both of them joined the faculty of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
As you may have guessed, Clinton is the atheist and author of The God Delusion, the prominent evolutionary biologist Clinton Richard Dawkins. Alister is the Christian theist and author of A Fine-Tuned Universe:The Quest for God in Science and Theology , theologian Alister McGrath.
How can two intelligent, inquisitive, Oxford-trained scientists arrive at such different conclusions about God? We will return to that fascinating question later in the book.
Atheism is making a comeback. From bookstores to bus campaigns, the question of Gods existence is up for public de bate .
If you peruse the books mentioned above, you will encounter some bold claims:
- Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.
- When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
- The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic , racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
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