Overview
The so-called ‘new materialism’ argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. From Cosmology to Biology, its exponents have included such eminent names as Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Peter Atkins and Michael Ruse. 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 the way things 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Keith Ward
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Imprint: Oneworld Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.239kg
ISBN: 9781851681167
ISBN 10: 1851681167
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 26 September 1996
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
a very accessible, highly engaging work a well argued apologetic for theistic metaphysics This book displays a maturity and clarity far surpassing Ward's earlier works Theology Today A rare synthesis of intellect and conviction, this book offers valuable insights to readers struggling to reconcile faith and science. Booklist admirable effort to engage the scientist and the philosopher in the question of meaning, and human destiny. Muslim World Book Review incisive, logically structured and not cluttered with technical language. Methodist Recorder a profound and richly satisfying book that illuminates better than anything I have come across the most important issue of our time and which sooner or later will consign atheism to the dustbin of philosophical ideas. Catholic Herald Prof. Ward has written a tightly reasoned and highly accessible book that seeks to show the fallacies of modern scientific atheism One Country The philosophical and scientific arguments for the existence of God - well summarised, for instance in Professor Keith Ward's God, Chance and Necessity (Oneworld, 1996) - are now almost overwhelming. The Times Ward combines elegant rendering of familiar arguments with his own creative contribution. Theology Today it engages with the issues of the day from a position of profound and rational faith and deserves to be widely read and discussed Science and Christian Belief The Guardian
We are here either by fluke, or because there was no alternative, or because we were created with a purpose. Ward, who is Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, posits the third stance as his starting point and unravels an elegant and marvellously readable antithesis to the writings of those who claim with 'virulent contempt' that God is dead - or never existed in the first place. One must postulate God, says Ward, to best explain why the universe is how it is. In the process, he deals in some detail with the work of popular science writers such as Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and Peter Atkins, picking apart their arguments with apparent ease. He devotes a good section of the book to Darwin and theories of evolution, and concludes his neatly argued, gracious and authoritative case with an examination of consciousness and suffering. (Kirkus UK)
Author Information
Author Website: http://www.keithward.org.uk/
Keith Ward is the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.
