Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion, 2nd Edition - Brossura

McGrath, Alister E.

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ISBN 10: 1118964780 ISBN 13: 9781118964781

Casa editrice: Wiley, 2015

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A fully updated new edition of a critically acclaimed examination of the theories and writings of Richard Dawkins by a world-renowned expert on the relation of science and religion

• Includes in-depth analysis of Dawkins’ landmark treatise The God Delusion (2006), as well as coverage of his later popular works The Magic of Reality (2011) and The Greatest Show on Earth (2011),and a new chapter on Dawkins as a popularizer of science
• Tackles Dawkins’ hostile and controversial views on religion, and examine the religious implications of his scientific ideas including a comprehensive investigation of the ‘selfish gene’
• Written in an accessible and engaging style that will appeal to anyone interested in better understanding the interplay between science and religion

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"Wielding evolutionary arguments and carefully chosen metaphors like sharp swords, Richard Dawkins has emerged over three decades as this generation s most aggressive promoter of atheism. In his view, science, and science alone, provides the only rock worth standing on. In this remarkable book, Alister McGrath challenges Dawkins on the very ground he holds most sacred rational argument and McGrath disarms the master. It becomes readily apparent that Dawkins has aimed his attack at a naive version of faith that most serious believers would not recognize. After reading this carefully constructed and eloquently written book, Dawkins choice of atheism emerges as the most irrational of the available choices about God s existence." Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project  

In this tour de force Alister McGrath approaches the edifice of self confident, breezy atheism so effectively promoted by Richard Dawkins, and by deft dissection and argument reveals the shallowness, special pleading and inconsistencies of his world picture. Here is a book which helps to rejoin the magnificence of science to the magnificence of God s good Creation. Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, Cambridge University

Here Alister McGrath announces what every Darwinian Fundamentalist needs to hear: that science is and always has been a cultural practice that is provisional, fallible, and socially shaped an enterprise to be cultivated and fostered, but hardly worshipped or idolised. A devastating critique. David N. Livingstone, Professor of Geography and Intellectual History, Queen s University, Belfast    

 

L'autore:

Alister E. McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. One of the world’s leading theologians, he has written numerous critically acclaimed books, including The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis (Wiley, 2013), Why God Won’t Go Away: Engaging the New Atheism (2011), and Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology (Wiley, 2011). He is also the author of some of the most widely used theology textbooks, including the bestselling Christian Theology: An Introduction now in its fifth edition (Wiley, 2010).

Alister E. McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. One of the world's leading theologians, he has written numerous critically acclaimed books.

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• Editore: Wiley
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1118964780
• ISBN 13: 9781118964781
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 202