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A review by neuschb
Why God Won't Go Away: Is the New Atheism Running on Empty? by Alister E. McGrath
5.0
Thoughtful, pleasant, lucid, and brief.
Useful note: quotes Isaiah Berlin's observation that human conviction can be classed in three categories:
1.Those established by empirical observation.
2.Those established by logical deduction.
3.Those that cannot be proved in either of these ways.
Examples of convictions in the third category include adherence to human rights, acknowledgement of other minds, and belief in the existence God (a la A. Plantinga); see pages 86-7.
Useful note: quotes Isaiah Berlin's observation that human conviction can be classed in three categories:
1.Those established by empirical observation.
2.Those established by logical deduction.
3.Those that cannot be proved in either of these ways.
Examples of convictions in the third category include adherence to human rights, acknowledgement of other minds, and belief in the existence God (a la A. Plantinga); see pages 86-7.