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Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling
Dawkins’ Case Against God cuts through the shoddy
reasoning, logical blunders, and factual errors that populate
Richard Dawkins’ best-selling book The God Delusion.
Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker provide
readers with sharp logic and clear reasoning, exposing the
muddle-headed thinking behind Dawkins’ veneer of intellectual
rigor. Along the way, Hahn and Wiker offer a cogent and convincing
argument for God’s existence.
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These are their evil opposites. From
Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist
Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the
Human Male, these "influential" books have
led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown,
and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors'
bad ideas are still popular and pervasive--in fact, they might
influence your own thinking without your realizing it.
In this scintillating new book, Wiker
seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and
exposes it to the light of day.
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When we look at nature, what do we
find? In stark contrast to contemporary claims that the world
is meaningless, Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt reveal a
cosmos charged with both meaning and purpose. Their journey
begins with Shakespeare and ranges through Euclid's geometry,
the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, the periodic table
of the elements, the artistry of ordinary substances like
carbon and water, the intricacy of biological organisms, and
the irreducible drama of scientific exploration itself.
Along the way, Wiker and Witt fashion
a robust argument from evidence in nature, one that rests
neither on religious presuppositions nor on a simplistic view
of nature as the best of all possible worlds. In their exploration
of the cosmos, Wiker and Witt find all the challenges and
surprises, all of the mystery and elegance one expects from
a work of genius.
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The "Culture of Death" has
become a popular phrase, and is much bandied about in academic
circles. Yet, for most people, its meaning remains vague and
remote. DeMarco and Wiker have given the Culture of Death
high definition and frightening immediacy. They have exposed
its roots by introducing its "architects." In a
scholarly, yet reader-friendly delineation of the mindsets
of twenty-three influential thinkers, such as Ayn Rand, Charles
Darwin, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret
Sanger, Jack Kevorkian, and Peter Singer, they make clear
the aberrant thought and malevolent intentions that have shaped
the Culture of Death.
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Ideas and actions once unthinkable
have become commonplace. We seem to live in a different moral
universe than we occupied just a few decades ago. Consent
and noncoercion seem to be the last vestiges of a morality
long left behind. Christian moral tenets are now easily dismissed
and have been replaced with what is curiously presented as
a superior, more magnanimous, respectful and even humble morality.
How did we end up so far away from
where we began? Can the decline be stopped? Ben Wiker, in
this provocative and insightful book, traces the amazing story—from
to the ethical theory and atheistic cosmology of the ancient
Greek philosopher Epicurus to the rise and acceptance of Darwinism—that
explains our present cultural situation.
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In The Mystery of the Periodic
Table, Wiker leads readers on a delightful and
absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elements
of the Periodic Table as we know them today.
He introduces the young reader to
people like Von Helmont, Boyle, Stahl, Priestly, Cavendish,
Lavoisier, and many others, all incredibly diverse in personality
and approach, who have laid the groundwork for a search that
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