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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a very good book. Haught is a good thinker, both tough and compassionate. He accepts the simple minded while defending the importance of rigorous thinking. This is for those who like to think or are willing to admire thinkers. (  ) SamTekoa | Aug 7, 2009 |  What a disappointment. Even at a mere 107 pages, Haught's rebuttal is tedious, saying very little and repeating it far too often. Diligently I plodded on, waiting for the main course to arrive, until at last the book was over, and, alas, my plate was still empty. Haught attempts to discredit Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens by summarizing their work, observing that most of what they proclaim breaks no new philosophical ground, and alleging that scientific naturalism is a self-destructing proposition because of the fact that its reliance on objective evidence as truth cannot be proven by scientific experiementation (and thus scientific naturalism is merely another brand of faith). If you find the arguments put forward in "God Delusion", "God Is Not Great" and "The End of Faith" sensible and rational, then you are unlikely to be persuaded otherwise by Haught's weak defense of his theology. (  ) WebleyWebster | Jun 13, 2009 | John Haught takes on the likes of Dawkins, Harris and the crowd of "New Atheists" who are making a splash with their recent books ("The God Delusion" and the like). Haught shows how these authors seem never to have read any works of serious theologians or serious philosophers; in fact it seems that they have never read any works of serious atheists either! Haught shows how the simplistic truth claims of the new atheists are typically self- referentially incoherent and that the entire basis of their arguments is one of blind faith ("scientism" as it is known). It is a shame that the new atheists do not read works by theologians because they really need to read Haught's book so they don't continue to embarrass themselves in public by claiming (as new) ideas that have been the subject of intellectual debate for centuries and by making claims that are philosophically outrageous. juliandavies | Apr 27, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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