God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
by Victor J. Stenger

God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
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Author: Victor J. Stenger
Foreword: Christopher Hitchens
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-08
ISBN: 1591026520
Number of pages: 310
Publisher: Prometheus Books

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Summary: 5 Stars

This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in thinking. And learning. I was raised without a religion, and grateful for it. Stenger provides us with a wealth of information, enabling us to make a choice about our lives and not believe our salvation depends on repeating the same myths from generation to generation. Our brains actually do evolve like everything else on the planet. I just finished reading "God The Failed Hypothesis". I'm not a science genius, and I did have to read some passages more than once, but the general idea is clear. This is a truly brilliant presentation of everything I have always believed but was never able to put into such powerful language nor have the kind of intelligent, scientific information to back it up. One day, if we don't blow ourselves out of existence, of course, people will see our current day religions in the same light we now see the countless primitive religions of the past. Mindless, repetitive and totally unbelievable stories .

Summary of God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

This edition includes a new Foreword by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling GOD IS NOT GREAT.

In the paperback's afterword, Victor Stenger addresses criticisms of his New York Times bestselling first edition.

Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology. In the meantime, science has sat on the sidelines and quietly watched this game of words march up and down the field. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world, somehow the notion has arisen that it has nothing to say about the possibility of a supreme being, which much of humanity worships as the source of all reality.

Physicist Victor J. Stenger contends that, if God exists, some evidence for this existence should be detectable by scientific means, especially considering the central role that God is alleged to play in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans. Treating the traditional God concept, as conventionally presented in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, like any other scientific hypothesis, Stenger examines all of the claims made for God's existence.

He considers the latest Intelligent Design arguments as evidence of God's influence in biology. He looks at human behavior for evidence of immaterial souls and the possible effects of prayer. He discusses the findings of physics and astronomy in weighing the suggestions that the universe is the work of a creator and that humans are God's special creation.

After evaluating all the scientific evidence, Stenger concludes that beyond a reasonable doubt the universe and life appear exactly as we might expect if there were no God.

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