Irreligion A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

Name: Irreligion A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
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ISBN: 9780809059195

ISBN-10: 0809059193

ISBN-13: 9780809059195

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Allen Paulos

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A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind nbsp; Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. InIrreligionhe presents the case for his own worldview, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments most often put forward for believing in God’s existence. The latter arguments, Paulos relates in his characteristically lighthearted style, “range from what might be called golden oldies to those with a more contemporary beat. On the playlist are the firstcause argument, the argument from design, the ontological argument, arguments from faith and biblical codes, the argument from the…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 12/26/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface


Four Classical Arguments


The Argument from First Cause (and Unnecessary Intermediaries)


The Argument from Design (and Same Creationist Calculations)


A Personally Crafted Pseudoscience


The Argument from the Anthropic Principle (and a Probabilistic Doomsday)


The Ontological Argument (and Logical Abracadabra)


Self-Reference, Recursion, and Creation


Four Subjective Arguments


The Argument from Coincidence (and 9/11 Oddities)


The Argument from Prophecy (and the Bible Codes)


An Anecdote on Emotional Need


The Argument from Subjectivity (and Faith, Emptiness, and Self)


The Argument from Interventions (and Miracles, Prayers, and Witnesses)


Remarks on Jesus and Other Figures


Four Psycho-Mathematical Arguments


The Argument from Redefinition (and Incomprehensible Complexity)


The Argument from Cognitive Tendency (and Some Simple Programs)


My Dreamy Instant Message Exchange with God


The Universality Argument (and the Relevance of Morality and Mathematics)


The Gambling Argument (and Emotions from Prudence to Fear)


Atheists, Agnostics, and "Brights"


Index