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Preface
6:23 -
Part I. An Examination of Theism. What is God?
21:33 -
The Origin of the Idea of God
33:09 -
Have we a Religious Sense?
22:40 -
The Argument from Existence
16:34 -
The Argument from Causation
17:38 -
The Argument from Design
28:24 -
The Disharmonies of Nature
18:02 -
God and Evolution
28:50 -
The Problem of Pain
34:22 -
Part II. Substitutes For Atheism. A Question of Prejudice
12:55 -
What is Atheism
22:47 -
Spencer and the Unknowable
32:24 -
Agnosticism
21:17 -
Atheism and Morals
22:30 -
Atheism Inevitable
24:50
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Chapman Cohen, an English freethinker and secularist, wrote this short treatise in 1921 to argue that the real choice is between belief in God and atheism, with no sound halting place between them. He states his case from the atheist side, and his preface openly says that readers who will not weigh the evidence are not the audience he has in mind.
Part one examines theism. Its chapters ask what the word God means, where the idea came from, whether people have a religious sense, and how the arguments from existence, causation and design hold up. Later chapters turn to the disharmonies of nature, evolution and the problem of pain. Part two deals with the substitutes for atheism, including Herbert Spencer's Unknowable and agnosticism, and ends by discussing atheism and morals.
It is a polemic, not a neutral survey, and it is best read as a clear example of how an early twentieth-century secularist built his argument.
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- Author
- Chapman Cohen
- First published
- 1921
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 111
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Philosophy
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