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__What is God?____Does he exist?____Can we know?____The God Confusion__ offers a down-to-earth beginner's guide for anyone interested in these questions. It does not evangelize for God and religion or, indeed, for atheism, secularism and science. Instead, it explores in a witty yet objective and balanced way the idea of God and the strengths and weaknesses of the standard arguments for his existence. Gary Cox shows that the philosophical reasoning at the heart of these arguments is logically incapable of moving beyond speculation to any kind of proof. The only credible philosophical position is therefore agnosticism. __The God Confusion__ defends science generally and the theory of evolution in particular. It argues that if religion is not to appear increasingly outdated and ridiculous in the eyes of free-thinking, educated people, it must accommodate science and accept that science has replaced the old God of the gaps as an explanation of natural phenomena.Concluding that God may or may not exist, on the grounds that science, philosophy and theology are inherently incapable of proving or disproving his existence, __The God Confusion__ acknowledges that religious faith based on a d

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Author
Gary Cox
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9781623564292
Category
philosophy
Subjects
Fiction, Reference, Religious Studies
Rating
3.61 / 5 (15 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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