![]() ![]() I argue in The Last Superstition that in fact there is not, and never has been, any war between science and religion at all. ![]() ![]() The central contention of the "New Atheism" of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is that there has for several centuries been a war between science and religion, that religion has been steadily losing that war, and that at this point in human history a completely secular scientific account of the world has been worked out in such thorough and convincing detail that there is no longer any reason why a rational and educated person should find the claims of any religion the least bit worthy of attention. "With energy and humor as well as transparent exposition, Feser reestablishes the unassailable superiority of classical philosophy." Sir Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement Having read and reviewed quite a number of other similar books, I concur with this judgment." The publisher's blurb tells us that this book has been widely hailed as the strongest argument ever made against the New Atheists. " has the rare and enviable gift of making philosophical argument compulsively readable. "The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism" by Edward Feser (St. ![]()
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