Illogical Atheism: A Comprehensive Response to the Contemporary Freethinker From a Lapsed Agnostic

309 Pages·2014·1.27 MB·English

by  Bo Jinn

Bō Jinn
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THE LAST PROPHET”
To a friend most dear
“I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a
man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very
sad simplification.”
- G.K. Chesterton, The Well and the Shallows
CONTENTS
BOOK I: ORIGINS
CHAPTER 1: PARABLE OF AN AGNOSTIC AND A NEW ATHEIST
CHAPTER 2: THE EVOLUTION OF ATHEISM
2.1 Intellectual Atheism
2.2 Emotive Atheism

CHAPTER 3: DISSECTING THE SILENT SPECTRUM
3.1 The Atheist-Skeptic
3.2 The Atheist-Agnostic
3.3 The Anti-Theist
3.4 The Naturalist/Materialist
3.5 The “Scientist”
3.6 The Deist
CHAPTER 4: THE MODERN ‘FREETHINKER’
4.1 Rise of the Cyber-Atheist
4.2 Re-defining Modern Atheism
BOOK II: FALLACIES
CHAPTER 5: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO FALLACIOUS
REASONING
CHAPTER 6: THE “CELESTIAL TEAPOT” FALLACY AND ITS
DERIVATIVES
6.1 The False Analogy and its re-applications
6.2 Premises I & 2: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
6.3 Premise 4: “Not enough evidence, God, not enough evidence!”
6.4 Conclusions
CHAPTER 7: THE “GOD OF THE GAPS” FALLACY
7.1 The Allegory of the Ancient Scientists and Aristotle’s Nightmare
7.2 Psychology of the Gaps
7.3 Philosophy of the Gaps
CHAPTER 8: THE AD HOMINEM FALLACIES AND THE FALLACIES
OF ORIGINS
8.1 Ad Hominem, propaganda and the New Atheist “Metaphysical Mein Kampf”
8.2 The Genetic Fallacy
8.3 The Psychological Fallacy: Dawkins, Dennett and the “Freudian Explanation”
8.4 The Atheist Delusion
CHAPTER 9: FALLACIES OF CONJECTURE
9.1 Project then Predict
9.2 Christopher Hitchens: Prophecies of Doom and the Argument from Insignificance
CHAPTER 10: THE EVOLUTIONARY FALLACIES
10.1 The “Created God” Delusion
10.2 Evolution and Evolution-ism
10.3 The True Problem of Evolution
10.4 Evolutionary Determinism
10.5 Created Gods and the Fallacy of Complexity
CHAPTER 11: THE PLURALISTIC FALLACY
CHAPTER 12: THE FIVE WAYS TO FOLLY
12.1 Necessity and Contingency
12.2 Degrees
12.3 Ontological Absurdity
CHAPTER 13: CONCLUSION: THE ARGUMENT FROM
INCREDULITY
BOOK III: FAITH
CHAPTER 14: THE “END OF FAITH” AND THE VEIL OF
DECEPTION
CHAPTER 15: THE “DEFAULT POSITION”
15.1 Psychological default: The Myth of the Automatic Atheist
15.2 Philosophical default: The Presumption of Atheism
CHAPTER 16: THE ‘NON-EXISTENCE’ OF AGNOSTICISM
CHAPTER 17: THE ATHEIST FAITH
17.1 Faith, Belief and Epistemology of Atheism
17.2 Atheist Worldviews
17.3 The Atheist Religion
CHAPTER 18: THE ATHEISTIC GENESIS AND THE COSMIC
PARADOX
18.1 The Kalām Cosmological Argument
18.2 Premise 1: What Rocks Dream Of
18.3 Premise 2: The Day With no Yesterday
18.4 So Many Worlds, So Little Time
18.5 Conclusions
CHAPTER 19: SCIENTISM & THE NEW JIHAD
19.1 The “Scientific” foundations of New Atheism
19.2 The Historical Battle: The Past Re-Written
19.3 The Conceptual Battle: Science v. Scientism
CHAPTER 20: FOUNDATIONS OF ILLOGICALITY
20.1 Why Atheism is Necessarily False
20.2 Problem I: Sufficient Reason
20.3 Problem II: Determined Beliefs
20.4 Problem III: Darwin’s Doubt Revisited
20.5 Conclusions: From Atheism to Nihilistic Epistemology
CHAPTER 21: ALL ABOUT TRANSCENDENCE
21.1 The Incoherence of Atheist Spirituality
21.2 God and the Imagination