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

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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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143 Reviews

Love it (62%) | Hate it (24%) | On the Fence (13%) | Didn't Rate it (1%)

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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 13, 2008 Type: User Review

No more need be said.

Logically demolishes theism. Therefore, will have no effect on theists, but one can always hope.
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 09, 2008 Type: User Review

Simon says

I have been a long term reader-thinker of and about the "God" question etc. I found that "Hypothesis" was a review of much of what I had already learned but the material was very well organized for the author's purpose. The last point made (Why...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 09, 2008 Type: User Review

Religion needs to knock it off.

People 2000 years ago knew nothing about the universe so they made sh#t up. They were a frightened, ignorant people who, without the scientific tools we have today, explained things through creative writing. Of course I can't prove that god...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 02, 2008 Type: User Review

God told me this book is wrong, but I don't believe Him

Who can disprove me, and why should anyone even care to?

All desperate yearning for purpose and meaning aside, this seems such a useless pursuit. I keep my rating in the middle, on account of the possibility that all of these God...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 01, 2008 Type: User Review

Breaking Out of the Ghetto

Coming this late to the party, I better have something non-redundant to contribute. Actually, I read back through the hundred-and-some reviews and appended commentaries (Whew!), and on that basis, I recommend three critics of Stenger's book for...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 27, 2008 Type: User Review

You're wasting your time with this

I want to ask all of the educated atheists one simple question: If there is no evidence for God and He does not exist, why bother writing all these books? Why do you pontificate on all of your theories and "facts" and "new discoveries" if there is...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 14, 2008 Type: User Review

Modern Science vs. Modern Theology

This book is very useful because it explains why a physical scientist is rejecting the existence of God. In general, Stenger recognizes the emergence of modern science but misses the emergence of modern theology in the 15th century with the work...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 12, 2008 Type: User Review

provocative evidence against a popular God

Stenger's summary of evidence is not intended to disprove the existence of some sort of god, somewhere, at some time.
It ably showcases the absurdities one must accept or ignore in order to profess belief in one very popular concept of god,...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 10, 2008 Type: User Review

The failed Stenger

Stenger is a retired physicist and should be a retired writer too.
The example of this is this book.

Chapter 4 is a game of hide and seek whith the readers. Why doesn't he say we don't have the least idea how matter appeared and...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 05, 2008 Type: User Review

Positivism in a Vacuum and for the Vacuous

It seems that this work is another take on the Popperian idea that falsification of theories is the axiomatic heart of scientific thought, and hence that anything that can be falsified can thus be eliminated from the social discourse. Yet does...
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