I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist - MP3

I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist - MP3 Review

One of my favorite parts about this book was that the authors allowed for atheist obections intermittently that fairly represented atheism. I know this because I have atheist friends who bring up the same contentions with theism discussed in this book, like: Who created God? or Why should we trust the Bible?, etc.

The book sets out to prove twelve points starting with "1)Truth about reality is knowable... 12)It is true that the Bible is the Word of God (and anything opposed to it is false)." At first, this outline (presented at the beginning of the book and revisited later) bothered me, until I realized that all authors have an end in sight in every book- these authors just chose to show us their line of reasoning. Since they offered solid scientific and historical evidence for each point along the way, we cannot accuse them of letting their bias get in the way. We must consider the evidence they present, and not their motivation for writing it. The organization of the book was well thought-out and helped build the case, step by step, for Christianity.

I also found the analogies in this book quite helpful, especially in Chapter 3 when the authors presented widely accepted evidence for the Big Bang in a way easy to understand. I had to re-read Chapters 3-5 (on scientific evidence that could be interpreted as indicative of a Creator), not because they were hard to follow, but because their conclusions were so profound that I wanted to be sure I agreed with the authors (which I do). Chapters 3-7 attempt to prove the existence of the theistic God by using the Cosmological Argument, the Teleological Argument (argument from design), and the Moral Law argument. For those unfamiliar with these topics this book is a great introduction to the common arguments for theism. Personally, I felt the Moral argument chapter was not very strong because the authors kept stating that we intrinsically know there is a moral law. However, they assume morality must originate with God and ignore atheist arguments that morality could have been a product of evolution. The authors distinguish between micro and macro-evolution, showing the clear evidence for micro-evolution (which they accept) and five lines of evidence to refute macro-evolution.

One criticism I have of this book is that the authors did not devote much space to refuting the many other non-theistic world religions . After presenting the evidence for a supernatural Creator, they infer that the attributes of this Creator (known through observing His creation) are the same attributes theists attribute to God, therefore "only one of the theistic religions- Judaism, Christianity, or Islam- could be true. All other major world religions cannot be true, because they are nontheistic... by simple logic- using the Law of Noncontradiction, mutually exclusive religions cannot all be true"(198-99).

If you are an atheist, don't be put off by the title of this book. In fact, the authors admit that atheism could be true, it's just far more likely that theism is true. I don't think this book will offend anybody who wants to honestly weigh the arguments for and against the existence of the theistic God. You should definitely buy this book!

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