LEADER 04458nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910810849403321 005 20240912160436.0 010 $a9786613204646 010 $a9781444357653 010 $a1444357654 010 $a9781283204644 010 $a1283204649 010 $a9781444307986 010 $a1444307983 010 $a9781444307993 010 $a1444307991 035 $a(CKB)1000000000822216 035 $a(EBL)470210 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000333800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11297159 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10377794 035 $a(PQKB)11747796 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470210 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10355302 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL320464 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4041863 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11114621 035 $a(OCoLC)476311789 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470210 035 $a(Perlego)1006161 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000822216 100 $a20090225d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auruz|---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$a50 voices of disbelief $ewhy we are atheists /$fedited by Russell Blackford and Udo Schu?klenk 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, MA $cWiley-Blackwell$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (358 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781405190466 311 08$a1405190469 311 08$a9781405190459 311 08$a1405190450 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a50 Voices of Disbelief; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Now More Important than Ever - Voices of Reason; Unbelievable!; My ""Bye Bull"" Story; How Benevolent Is God? An Argumentfrom Suffering to Atheism; A Deal-Breaker; Why Am I a Nonbeliever? - I Wonder . . .; Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the Moral Character and Existential Status of God; Religious Belief and Self-Deception; The Coming of Disbelief; What I Believe; Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to Explain: The Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God; How to Think About God: Theism, Atheism, and Science 327 $aA Magician Looks at ReligionConfessions of a Kindergarten Leper; Beyond Disbelief; An Ambivalent Nonbelief; Why Not?; Godless Cosmology; Unanswered Prayers; Beyond Faith and Opinion; Could It Be Pretty Obvious There's No God?; Atheist, Obviously; Why I am Not a Believer; Evil and Me; Who's Unhappy?; Reasons to be Faithless; Three Stages of Disbelief; Born Again, Briefly; Cold Comfort; The Accidental Exorcist; Atheist Out of the Foxhole; The Unconditional Love of Reality; Antinomies; Giving Up Ghosts and Gods; Some Thoughts on Why I Am an Atheist; No Gods, Please! 327 $aWelcome Me Back to the World of the ThinkingKicking Religion Goodbye . . .; On Credenda; ""Not Even Start to Ignore Those Questions!" A Voice of Disbelief in a Different Key; Imagine No Religion; Humanism as Religion: An Indian Alternative; Why I Am NOT a Theist; When the Hezbollah Came to My School; Evolutionary Noise, not Signal from Above; Gods Inside; Why Morality Doesn't Need Religion; Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism; My Nonreligious Life: A Journey From Superstition to Rationalism; Helping People to Think Critically About Their Religious Beliefs 327 $aHuman Self-Determination, Biomedical Progress, and GodAbout the Contributors; Index 330 $a50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are atheists. Features a truly international cast of contributors, ranging from public intellectuals such as Peter Singer, Susan Blackmore, and A.C. Grayling, novelists, such as Joe Haldeman, and heavyweight philosophers of religion, including Graham Oppy and Michael TooleyContributions range from rigorous philosophical 606 $aAtheists 606 $aAtheism 615 0$aAtheists. 615 0$aAtheism. 676 $a211.8 701 $aBlackford$b Russell$f1954-$01619433 701 $aSchu?klenk$b Udo$0888960 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810849403321 996 $a50 voices of disbelief$93951657 997 $aUNINA