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God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by: John Lennox List Price: £8.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 291 EAN: 9780745953038 ISBN: 0745953034 Label: Lion Hudson Plc Manufacturer: Lion Hudson Plc Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: September 01, 2007 Publisher: Lion Hudson Plc Studio: Lion Hudson Plc Sales Rank: 9520 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A highly rigorous argument in favour of GodI found this to be an extremely well written, highly respectful and totally convincing argument in favour of God's existence. Moreover, it demonstrates that science and religious belief are entirely compatible. Evolution and God? Yes! Rating:  - Worth reading, whatever your current stanceThis is not a bad book at all, and it is written (on the whole) in an accessable style. It stands out from other similar books by attempting to clarrify what the author considers to be the real issues. It also scores by just focussing on one aspect of the theism/atheism/agnosticism debate, and obviously this is the aspect about which the author is most informed. There was also some discussion of the philosophy of science, which is all too often omitted or taken for granted. However, one of things that occurred to me, whilst reading this book, is that rarely do we get any discussion of the more fundamental point of what constitutes evidence. This is not as obvious as it first sounds. For example, in medical research, there are clear criteria ... Read More: Rating:  - insightful - helped me to understand betterI found this book very helpful. I knew random bits about science and evolution, but didn't really know how that fits in with my believe in God, and if it fits in at all. This book really helped me to put everything in perspective. He is very objective, and doesn't at all try to convert non-believers. He just explains science, so that I, a non-scientist, can understand it, and how it ties in with religion. This was a really helpful book. I didn't regret buying it for one second!! Rating: - Get to the important bits...Curious how the most negative reviewers of this book don't seem to engage with it's central points and hence don't seem to have read it properly? Anyway, there are many good general qualities about this book already addressed by other reviewers. For me the most notable and pressing points of value that Lennox makes are the following: 1) There isn't a necessary tension between science and religion - rather between competing worldviews - most notably (for the purposes of this book) - naturalism and theism. Either one of these basic outlooks can use science legitimately to expand material knowledge, but either one can also quite easily end up using it selectively to fit in with it's ultimate assumptions and aims. So, ... Read More: Rating: - Heaven knows we're agnostics nowDon't get me wrong, this isn't a bad book. It is thought provoking and has confirmed my agnosticism in the existence of some kind of transcendent reality/being/whatever that may relate to our physical existence (I shall return to the idea of agnosticism later in criticsing this book). The author is trying to persuade us that, not only does science not have the ability to disprove the existence of God (something that science cannot possibly do anyway!) but, also that the results of science in cosmogony and biology make God a more probable alternative than naturalism. On the surface the book is very persuasive. And that is part of the problem, by digging a little deeper you realise that is all it is and offers very little substance ... Read More: |
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