God, Chance and Necessity - Softcover

Ward, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851681167 ISBN 13: 9781851681167

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 1996

Synopsis

The 'new materialism' argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology, from biology and from sociobiology and exposes a number of crucial fallacies and weaknesses.
With a carefully argued, point by point refutation of scientific atheism, God, Chance and Necessity shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God, but actually points to the existence of God as the best explanation of how things are the way they are. Thus it sets out to demolish the claims of books like The Selfish Gene, and to show that the overwhelming appearance of design in nature is not deceptive.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The 'new materialism' argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology (Stephen Hawking, Peter Atkins), from biology (Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins) and from sociobiology (Michael Ruse), and exposes a number of fallacies and weaknesses. With a carefully argued, point-by-point refutation of scientific atheism, God, Chance and Necessity shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God, but actually points to the existence of God as the best explanation of how things are the way they are. Thus it sets out to demolish the claims of books like The Selfish Gene, and to show that the overwhelming appearance of design in nature is not deceptive.

About the Author:

Keith Ward is Regius Professor Divinity at the University of Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1851681167
• ISBN 13: 9781851681167
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224