The New Atheism: 10 arguments that don't hold water
Author:   Michael Poole
Publisher:   SPCK Publishing
Edition:   New edition
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9780745953939


Pages:   96
Publication Date:   23 October 2009
Format:   Paperback
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The new atheists are putting out new books and articles, bus adverts and TV programmes like there's no tomorrow. They've gained a large amount of public attention and media exposure - but do their arguments really hold water? Using the analogy put forward by the esteemed philosopher Anthony Flew, Michael Poole examines the new atheists' use of the 'ten leaky buckets' tactic of argumentation - presenting readers with a sum of arguments that are each individually defective, as though the cumulative effect should be persuasive. This closer look at the facts reveals that the buckets are, indeed, leaky.

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Author:   Michael Poole
Publisher:   SPCK Publishing
Imprint:   Lion Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 11.10cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.090kg
ISBN:  

9780745953939


ISBN 10:   074595393
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   23 October 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments 7 About this book 8 Chapter 1 Un-natural selection or ‘Down with sex!’ 11 Chapter 2 ‘Faith is believing what you know ain’t so’ 17 Chapter 3 People who live in glass houses…? 22 Chapter 4 ‘… and may be used in evidence’? 30 Chapter 5 Ancient.doc 40 Chapter 6 Explaining explaining 48 Chapter 7 Where do we draw the boundary? 57 Chapter 8 An endangered species? 64 Chapter 9 Back to the drawing board – but whose? 69 Chapter 10 Unpeeling the cosmic onion 78 Summary 87 Notes 90 Index 95

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Helpful and accessible . . . highly recommended. --Alister McGrath, author, In the Beginning


...many Christians will find Poole's little book informative and helpful. It is the king of booklet you can give away with reasonable hope that the recipient will take the time to read it. -- BB Australian Journal for Christian Scholarship 20130901


Author Information

Michael Poole is Visiting Research Fellow in Science and Religion at King's College, London. For Lion, he has also written The User's Guide to Science and Belief.

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