Theists must consider arguments against God. They should assess both the strong attacks of atheists and the counterattacks of scholarly believers who try to rebut non-believers. Belief in God is too important to be determined by default cultural circumstances. Arguments are a hedge against naive assumptions about reality.
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Peter William Atkins FRSC is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including “Atkins’ Molecules” and “Galileo’s Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being”.
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