Is atheism dead? /
"In a literary showdown with the Four Horsemen of the New Atheism--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris--Metaxas neatly skewers them with their own swords. Along the way he presents breathtaking evidence from the fields of archaeology, nanoscience, and quantum p...
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Washington, D.C. :
Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the grand counter-narrative
- In the beginning was the big bang
- Where science cannot go: the big bang and other singularities
- The fine-tuned planet
- The fine-tuned universe
- More planetary fine-tuning: water and sunlight
- How did life originate? or "You can't get here from there"
- Life is far more complex than we thought
- More on origins of life: now what?
- The evidence of archaeology
- The black obelisk that became a golden spike
- More Biblical archaeology: three misbehaving boys who changed history
- More archaeology: the New Testament manuscripts
- More New Testament archaeology
- Jerusalem in Jesus' day
- Two amazing New Testament discoveries
- The Nazareth home of Jesus
- Ur of the Chaldees discovered: the surprising resilience of the ancient past
- The discovery of Biblical Sodom
- The four horsemen
- Is atheism evil?
- Atheists who found God: Sartre, Flew, and Camus
- Problems with atheism: faith and science are BFFs
- The boundaries of science: more than meets the eye
- The impossible bleakness of materialism
- The founding myth of atheism: Galileo, Copernicus, and the church
- Christianity begat science
- Further problems with atheism
- Atheism unhinged
- Great scientists who were devout Christians
- Conclusions: The meaning of meaning.