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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Thoughtful, nuanced scepticism about atheism,
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This review is from: Sceptic's Guide to Atheism (Paperback)
This is a welcome book. Firstly it pitches well to reclaim the word "sceptic" to its original meaning- of doubt towards a proposition, rather than as a synonym for atheist. We know that atheists are sceptical about the claims of religion, but the religious are just as sceptical about the claims of atheism.And Peter Williams sets out to show how and why the religious are sceptical of the claims of atheism. He does this by many arguments, across the field of the God debate. He knows the atheists' arguments well and quotes their key points and references before going on to interact with them and show up their logical or evidential flaws. For those who see Dawkins's "The God Delusion" as holy writ this will be unsettling. This book is very carefully written trying to be fair to those authors and ideas which it critiques. I can recommend it either to theists who want to disturb the certainties of their atheist friends, or to atheists who are beginning to reflect on their position. Of course dyed in the wool rock heads won't even consider reading it. If you want a good overview of the strong arguments against atheism then this book is a good place to start.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Thoughtful rebuttal,
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Peter Williams is an intelligent theist who thankfully took the time to consider the 'new atheist' literature. This is fortunate as Mr Williams might rightfully have considered the weak straw men used to attack theism in that literature a waste of his time discussing. He is clearly capable of doing much more weighty intellectual endeavours. Accordingly, theists should be indebted to him for taking the time and illuminating the current situation that is shadowed by the new athiests' straw men.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Testing the Claims of Anti-theism,
This review is from: Sceptic's Guide to Atheism (Paperback)
"Why is there something and not, nothing?""If God is completely good, why is there evil in the world?" "Why do Wintergreen LifeSavers spark and flicker when you chew them in the dark?" Skeptics and cynics always pose the most stimulating questions. You'd have to ask keen Christian philosophers about the first two. And the reader came to the right place: "A Sceptic's Guide to Atheism: God is Not Dead" by Peter Williams. Williams' volume is both a readable and fascinating critique of the New Atheism. Williams is a patient philosopher and he confronts the recent works of present-day atheistic exhorters as he refutes their primary ideas, analyses their assertions, and offers a potent and convincing refutation of atheism. Herein the reader finds an intellectually substantial rejoinder to skeptical thought. Chapters include: - Long live the New Atheism - Is Faith the root of all evil? - Does science explain everything? - Natural Theology - Evidence for Christianity - Williams notes many, I mean many, helpful resources at the back of each chapter. Williams discusses the well-known professional atheists and reveals that they are strict fundamentalists who are stuck in a self-stultifying worldview. This skeptical worldview is one built upon shifting epistemic sand and is propagated by inane and illogical argumentation. Williams provides numerous quotes from the pens of the New Atheists to demonstrate the weakness and incongruous structure of their contentions. He proves that the New Atheism doesn't "cut the philosophical mustard." His analysis is lucid and powerful as he combats atheism at its ground and fount. Since Williams reveals the numerous fallacies that the New Atheists routinely fall into, this is one of the best philosophical anti-atheist books written for popular readers. Williams exposes the anti-logical works of: - Dennett - Hitchens - Dawkins - Harris and many other fashionable atheist fundamentalists. In the section "Does Science Explain Everything?" Professor Williams opposes the irrational notion that modern science can explain everything. He helps the reader understand the significant distinction between science and "Scientism." He then discusses teleology, contingency, evolution, and chance. Can all the contingency and order be explained by time and chance acting upon matter? Williams furnishes compelling answers that point to the necessity of the Creator. He clearly argues that the thinking person should reject the "presumption of atheism." This work is littered with interesting quotes and many compelling arguments based on reason and the truth of the Christian worldview. In Sceptic's Guide," Mr. Williams surveys a stunning amount of pertinent literature and skillfully connects theistic truth to reason, common sense, and everyday thinking. The lessons he draws are astute and intuitive, but reader friendly. Unlike the pugnacious new atheists, Williams is philosophically modest and gets a lot right. I recommend "A Sceptic's Guide to Atheism" for all open skeptics as well as believers who desire rightful arguments that roundly defeat the New Atheism. Endorsed by William Dembski, Angus Menuge, and Gary Habermas. Also see the New Apologetic book: Truth, Knowledge and the Reason for God: The Defense of the Rational Assurance of Christianity
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