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The rise of Islamic extremism has, in recent years, provoked a strong and highly influential critical backlash from articulate atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Against that background, books such as this, which offer a forensic critique of atheistic arguments, can only be welcomed. Varghese can sometimes be a little too polemical for his own good, given that his objective here is to marshall a set of intellectually powerful and persuasive arguments for belief in God. But when you're trying to provide a counter-weight to Dawkins, who wilfully (and shamelessly) misrepresents the views of great thinkers like Einstein and Spinoza, a degree of invective can perhaps be forgiven. Varghese is also too dismissive of pantheism, which slightly detracts from his overall case. But in general this is a marvellously rewarding defence of classic theism. I found his demolition of reductionist materialism is totally convincing.
Ideal holiday reading if you want to go on a spiritual, as well as geographical, journey. With so much darkness and horror around us, it is good to be reminded that the world really is a wonderful place after all.
Ideal holiday reading if you want to go on a spiritual, as well as geographical, journey. With so much darkness and horror around us, it is good to be reminded that the world really is a wonderful place after all.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A must after reading Richard Dawkins who is made to look quite amateurish. But this is not the book that can be read quickly as it requires much careful study. Certainly gets you thinking.
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This is tedious pseudo-intellectual claptrap. Varghese is very well-informed but his style of argument is what you might expect in the 'Body, Mind, Spirit' section of Waterstones. He does not appear to have an academic teaching post anywhere and frankly it shows. There's a lack of critical rigour in his arguments and he dishes up Dan Brown-type rubbish like 'the Matrix' and 'the Four' greatest thinkers. The basic thesis is a version of the Design Argument for the existence of God. But however this is presented it just shifts the problem up a level into the realm of speculative metaphysics where theologians, and writers like Varghese, have free rein to indulge their fantasies. The real mystery is how a distinguished philosopher like Anthony Flew can have been persuaded to endorse any part of the Varghese project.
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