Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
by John Allen Paulos
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Author: John Allen PaulosEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-02
ISBN: 0809059193
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Book Review: A short logic evaluation of theist claims
Summary: 4 Stars
This little book is a short overview about the main logical fallacies of religious deductions as "proof of god" ala Thomas Aquinas or St. Amseln.
J.A. Paulos just show several simple logical claims ridicules them like `I wish this to be true therefore God must exists' to make it very (far too) simple to understand.
The Mandelbrot set for example: instead just a short verbal mentioning it could be displayed as very simple algorithm and then display pictures of wonderful and amazingly complex structures which can be produced with this simple formula. This might show more how complexity can be `created' from very simple things.
A couple of ideas are taken from Richard Dawkins `The God delusion' and some own evaluations about mathematically probabilities with some anecdotes and that's it.
Too superficial for my taste, J.A. Paulos could dig much more into details and make logical sound refutations, but the purpose of this book seems to dumb it down enough, avoid mathematical formulas or logical syntax to make it available to a wider audience.
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