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Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up, by John Allen Paulos

“John Allen Paulos is a mathematician who teaches at Temple University and also a talented popularizer. In previous books he has trained his mathematical eye on humor, the stock market and what he reads in the newspaper. Now he has taken on God. Paulos is not a credulous man. He sees things, he tells us, in the cold light of logic and probability. (His stock market book told how he was suckered into losing a bundle on WorldCom stock, but never mind.) In “Irreligion,” Paulos intends to expose the “inherent illogic” of arguments for the existence of God. He finds these supposed proofs to be, by and large, a load of tripe.” Read the review at the New York Times.

Filed under: Nonfiction, Religion, Science | Posted 01.16.08 | Comments:


  1. Other reviews of Irreligion from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus appear here: http://www.math.temple.edu/~paulos/irrel-revs.html

    Comment by J.A. Paulos — January 17, 2008 @ 6:41 am

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