What I find interesting about this list are the following features.
The ratio of theists to atheists is significantly stacked in favour of theism. Now the numbers of people who believe something do not determine the truth or falsity of the thing but what it suggests is that those who specialise in the actual subject that studies whether or not belief in God is rational, defensible, etc. the majority believe that it is. This of course is extremely hard to reconcile with the common popular level atheist claims that the case for theism is so obviously ridiculous that no sane, thinking person would believe in it. It also tends to call into question the claim that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any merit at all for the existence of God.
Equally interesting is who did not make the list. Noticeably absent are the popularly cited “authorities in the field,” Sam Harris, John Loftus, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens. Also absent is Daniel Dennett who, despite being a very good philosopher of mind, is not a philosopher of religion.
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Someone just send me this link which I hadn’t seen before. Since I didn’t make that list you’d be interested to know that I did make another one of his. My book was ranked by him as the best atheist book of the past decade. That’s quite an unexpectedly high honor given the other books he ranks in that list. So I guess one needs not be one of the top 100 to write a book that ranks #1 in the past decade. Oh well.
This article remind me about my spiritual guru’s words about highest theism achievment “You should be an atheis first to jump into highest achivement as theism”.
“Life is not about to be atheism or theism but how you find the truth about atheism and theism”.
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