BONANSEA, Bernadino M., God and Atheism

- 1 - Atheism : Five Arguments for God

It’s perhaps something of a surprise that almost none of the so-called New Atheists has anything to say about arguments for God’s existence. Instead, they do tend to focus on the social effects of religion and question whether religious belief is good for society. One might justifiably doubt that the social impact of an idea for good or ill is an adequate measure of its truth, especially when t...

The New Atheism

In what may be his best book to date, Victor Stenger (Professor Emeritus of Physics) provides a much needed summary, elaboration, and defense of the main theses of the so-called “New Atheists” (NAs), known for their widely-publicized, unrelenting, and passionate critiques of theism and religion in general. Among these NAs, Stenger includes authors of recent bestsellers in the United States: Sam...

M Edia S Potlight the God Code Is God ’ S Name Etched upon Our Dna ?

Just as an art ist signs his works, it has been sug gested that God has signed His work of Cre ation by en coding within the DNA of all liv ing things His name ac cording to the an cient He brew and Arabic al pha bets. A star tling dis cov ery if true. Af ter a 12-year study, New York Times best sell ing au thor Gregg Braden claims to have discov ered just such a sig na ture—what he calls “the ...

The Presumption Of Atheism

We have already stated summarily what the punishment should be for temple-robbing, whether by open force or secretly. But the punishments for the various sorts of insolence in speech or action with regard to the gods, which a man can show in word or deed, have to be proclaimed after we have provided an exordium. Let this be it: "No one believing, as the laws prescribe, in the existence of the g...

The Cambridge Companion to ATHEISM