Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

By John Allen Paulos

Are there any logical purposes to think in God? The mathematician and bestselling writer John Allen Paulos thinks now not. In Irreligion he offers the case for his personal worldview, organizing his ebook into twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments typically recommend for believing in God's life. Interspersed between those counterarguments are comments on quite a few irreligious issues, starting from the character of miracles and creationist chance to cognitive illusions and prudential wagers. regardless of the robust effect of his day activity, Paulos says, there is no such thing as a unmarried mathematical formulation within the book.

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