In reading the other reviews posted here, I scarcely feel worthy to add much of additional value, yet still I am compelled to comment. After living 32 years as an atheist/agnostic, I can say that this is one of the best-written single works (for average student like myself) on these matters that I have yet seen.
Samples starts out with a fairly thorough examination and explanation of reason, logic, wisdom and philosophy, leaving little room for confusion of anyone willing to do the work of honest thinking. In fact, a person would have to work at being unclear or confused as he lays out reliable methods for grasping truth and reality. In my experience, this is what we see so many people doing in the post-modern relativistic age of information abundance in which we find ourselves. People seem work hard to avoid, and/or obfuscate truth for two main reasons. First, the work of understanding the truth is even more challenging and mentally strenuous than the mental gymnastics and emotional appeals to which we see so many resort. So in essence it is simply easier to be lazy. Second, and more profoundly, the consequences of accepting the truth mean that individuals would have to recognize a need that for many is uncomfortable. Easier (again) from an emotional to attack and disparage truth claims with vague and devious rhetoric than to deal with them in a rational and uncomplicated fashion. Easier still (or at least seemingly so, especially in the short term) to go on living without accountability to the truth that God has made plain for man to know from the beginning.
This book helps to cut through the intellectual clutter, yet in a detailed and organized fashion support sound arguments for knowing truth. Great book for young adults heading off to university to help them understand the world of tenured professors with their elite "understanding" and teaching of selective, anti-God worldviews. An excellent and fundamental resource for anyone searching for a clear, well informed understanding of competing worldviews. I will be recommending this book to many, of whom those who pay attention will also be grateful. Well done, and thank you Mr. Samples.
DR Johnson
John 18:37
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