Gregory E. Ganssle is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Senior Fellow of the Rivendell Institute at Yale University. He is the author of Thinking About God: First Steps in Philosophy and editor of God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature (with David M. Woodruff).
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Introduction: The New Face of Atheism 1. Science, Philosophy and the Claim that God Exists 2. Faith, Reason and Evidence 3. Three Arguments for God 4. The Design Argument 5. Darwinian Stories of the Origin of Religion 6. Three Arguments for Atheism 7. The Fittingness Argument A Modest Conclusion
"Short, readable, philosophically informed, and easily accessible. I highly recommend it both to interested non-philosophers and as a university-level text." --Peter van Inwagen, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Ganssle respectfully presents the ideas of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens and patiently and often confincingly shows where they have made serious mistakes in their arguments, doing so in a restrained and intellectually serious way. -- Tikkun Magazine For anyone teaching media and religion, communication, or popular culture and religion, this slim volume examining the leading public intellectuals who argue for atheism is a valuable resource, accessilbe for all levels of study, from beginning to advanced. -- Communication Research Trends