The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions - Softcover

Berlinski, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465019374 ISBN 13: 9780465019373

Verlag: Basic Books, 2009

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Book by Berlinski David

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"An incendiary and uproarious work of learned polemical writing, unique in its scientific sophistication and authority. Rather than criticizing science from the outside, Berlinski excoriates its atheist pretensions from within."--National Review "Berlinski's book is everything desirable: it is idiomatic, profound, brilliantly polemical, amusing, and of course vastly learned." --William F. Buckley Jr. "David Berlinski plus any topic equals an extraordinary book." --Chicago Tribune "With high style and light-hearted disdain, David Berlinski deflates the intellectual pretensions of the scientific atheist crowd. Maybe they can recite the Periodic Table by heart, but the secular Berlinski shows that this doesn't get them very far in reasoning about much weightier matters." --Michael J. Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box "A powerful riposte to atheist mockery and cocksure science, and to the sort of philosophy that surrenders to them. David Berlinski proceeds reasonably and calmly to challenge recent scientific theorizing and to expose the unreason from which it presumes to criticize religion." --Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University

Reseña del editor:

Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious belief. These authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that includes much of the scientific community. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defence of religious thought. The Devil's Delusion is a brilliant, incisive, and funny book that explores the limits of science and the pretensions of those who insist it is the ultimate touchstone for understanding our world.

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• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0465019374
• ISBN 13: 9780465019373
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256