Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism | David Mills

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	Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism David Mills Ulysses Press, 2006 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 214 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Clear, concise, and persuasive, Atheist Universe details exactly why God is unnecessary to explain the universe and life's diversity, organization, and beauty. The author thoroughly rebuts every argument that claims to "prove" God's existence ? arguments based on logic, common sense, philosophy, ethics, history and science.

Atheist Universe avoids the esoteric language used by philosophers and presents its scientific evidence in simple lay terms, making it a richly entertaining and easy-to-read introduction to atheism. A comprehensive primer, it addresses all the historical and scientific questions, including: Is there proof that God does not exist? What evidence is there of Jesus' resurrection? Can creation science reconcile scripture with the latest scientific discoveries?

Atheist Universe also answers ethical issues such as: What is the meaning of life without God? It's a spellbinding inquiry that ultimately arrives at a controversial and well-documented conclusion.

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Very well argued case against religion

Atheist Universe is a terrific book. Mills skewers creationists/advocates of "intelligent design" with solid logic and compelling arguments. I also liked the fact that Mills adds quotes by famous atheists from Freud to James Watson throughout the book. If you've ever encountered a pro-religious argument that you thought was absurd, but couldn't rebut, simply read this book. I think it's actually more persuasive than the God Delusion or God is Not Great. My one quibble is that I don't agree with Mills that Jesus was fictional; even Richard Dawkins concedes Jesus most likely existed. Notwithstanding this disagreement, I strongly recommend Atheist Universe to atheists and theists alike.

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Good but slow...

As a person that reads at a near-constant and accelerated rate, I figured that the 255 page book plus some forewords and such wouldn't be a challenge whatsoever. Granted, my lifestyle has changed a good deal but I've only gained additional free time with the change, rather than lost it. I breezed through the first half of this book. I feel like the last half is a re-hash of the first, just expanded a minute bit. I've been on the last 100 or so pages for about 4 weeks now and just finished it up today. Having not read any religion-based literature may have impacted my timing as well but I just can't escape the notion that it could've been a bit shorter, better condensed writing.

I've been an atheist for about 3 years now and am just "growing" in my knowledge of the natural world and the reasons/speculations of how it came to be. I've purchased Dawkins' "The God Delusion" so we'll see how this works stacks up with that.

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Mixed

This book has some excellent qualities, but also some fatal flaws.

Mills presents clear, detailed explanations of the scientific consensus behind such things as the origins of the universe, and points out how common fundamentalist attacks on those theories typically misrepresent them, then argue against the false straw men.

If Mills had been satisfied with this, I'd have given the book five stars. Unfortunately, he seems to have an axe to grind. He repeatedly lumps all Christianity in with the Biblical literalists, and calls them hypocrites and worse when their theories disagree with the literal Bible. This is as unfair on his part as the fundamentalist attacks on science that he spends the other half of the book dismantling so well.

Still, if you discount that part, there's a lot of good information in this book.

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