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Dr. Stenger does an excellent job of pointing out that propositions such as “God exists” can actually be studied rationally, and answered intelligibly. With such questions as “Does God exist?” typically come problems concerning wishful thinking, false causes and dilemmas, question-begging and the like. Dr. Stenger points out an obvious but often forgotten fact: all of our scientific knowledge is based not on deductive logic but on inductive logic; that is to say that the concept of truth that we
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I LOVED this book! Stenger made an excellent case. God was carefully defined near the beginning, and was given the attributes of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. Then he laid out what we should expect to see if a god with those attributes existed. After every case, Stenger then concludes that (the human mind, world, nature, universe, laws of physics) look exactly as we would expect them to if God didn't exist.
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