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005 20091222085946.0
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010 $a 2009019129
020 $a9781591027515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1591027519 (pbk. : alk. paper)
024 $a40017119151
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn318872895
035 $a(OCoLC)318872895
035 $a(NNC)7414368
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050 00 $aBL2747.3$b.S737 2009
082 00 $a211/.8$222
100 1 $aStenger, Victor J.,$d1935-
245 14 $aThe new atheism :$btaking a stand for science and reason /$cVictor J. Stenger.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c2009.
300 $a282 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIngersoll's Vow -- $g1.$tAtheism on the Offensive -- $g2.$tThe Folly of Faith -- $g3.$tThe Sword of Science -- $g4.$tThe Design Delusion -- $g5.$tHoly Smoke -- $g6.$tSuffering and Morality -- $g7.$tThe Nature of Nature -- $g8.$tThe Nature of Mind -- $g9.$tThe Way of Nature -- $g10.$tThe Future of Atheism.
520 1 $a"In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered obsolete the traditional beliefs held by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The authors of these books have come to be known as the "New Atheists." Predictably, their works have been controversial and attracted a good deal of critical reaction." "In this new book, Victor J. Stenger reviews and expands upon the principles of New Atheism and answers many of its critics. He demonstrates in detail that naturalism - the view that all of reality is reducible to matter and nothing else - is sufficient to explain everything we observe in the universe, from the most distant galaxies to the inner workings of the brain that result in the phenomenon of mind." "Stenger disputes the claim of many critics that the question of whether God exists is beyond the ken of science. On the contrary, he argues that absence of evidence for God is, indeed, evidence of absence when the evidence should be there and is not."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAtheism.
650 0 $aReligion.
650 0 $aChristianity and atheism.
650 0 $aReligion and science.
852 00 $bglx$hBL2747.3$i.S737 2009