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050 00 $aBT103$b.A87 2015
082 04 $a212.1
100 1 $aAugros, Michael,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWho designed the designer? :$ba rediscovered path to God's existence /$cMichael Augros.
264 1 $aSan Francisco :$bIgnatius Press,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a250 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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520 $a"The "New Atheists" are pulling no punches. If the world of nature needs a designer, they ask, then why wouldn't the designer itself need a designer, too? Or if it can exist without any designer behind it, then why can't we just say the same for the universe and wash our hands of a designer altogether? Interweaving its pursuit of the First Cause with personal stories and humor, this ground-breaking book takes a fresh approach to ultimate questions. While attentive to empirical science, it builds its case not on authoritative pronouncements of experts that readers must take on faith, but instead on a nuanced understanding of universal principles implicit in everyone's experience. Here is essential reading for all people who care about contemplating God, not exclusively as a best-explanation for the findings of science, but also as the surprising-yet-inevitable implication of our commonsense contact with reality. Augros harnesses such intellects as Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, ushering into the light a wealth of powerful inferences that have hitherto received little or no public exposure. The result is an easygoing yet extraordinary journey, beginning from the world as we all encounter it and ending in the divine mind"--Page 4 of cover.
505 0 $aHow to take this book -- Common ground; or, There is a first cause -- The tree of being -- The philosophy of the axle -- Beyond imagining -- The most intensely existing thing -- The ear of Whittaker's daughter -- Who designed the designer? -- Intractable minds -- What a lovely thing a rose is -- Hecklers -- Epilogue: The shoulders of giants.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aGod$xProof.
650 6 $aDieu$xExistence.
650 7 $aGod$xProof.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00944100
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