Book report: The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, by Edward Feser
Book report: The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, by Edward Feser When I read “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins, I had the definite overall feeling that he was wrong. Not just that I disagreed with his ideas, which I do, but that he was making actual mistakes in his reasoning and arguments. I pointed out some of these in my book report ( http://dejesus.blogspot.com/search?q=delusion ), but I knew there were more that I just couldn’t put my finger on. I’m just an old country theoretical physicist, not a trained philosopher, so I’m not up to the task of pointing out and refuting all his errors. Luckily, Edward Feser is. As a professional philosopher, with special interests in Aristotle and Aquinas, he has the philosophical chops to expose the fallacies in the arguments of Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the others who make a pretty cushy living by mocking belief in God. Feser’s book “The Last Superstition” presents counterarguments that are essential if one