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The Real Face of Atheism, By: Ravi Zacharias

The Real Face of Atheism, By: Ravi Zacharias
The Real Face of Atheism
By: Ravi Zacharias
Baker Books (September 1, 2004)
192 pages

In The Real Face of Atheism, famed Christian apologist Zacharias takes on inherent contradictions and omissions of the deterministic worldview. Following the arguments in this book is a pleasure in itself. This proves a fantastic follow-up to the scathing critique leveled in The End of Reason.

Two of my favorite quotes:

It is not surprising, therefore, that Stephen Hawking concluded his book A Brief History of Time asserting this question to be the most significant factor in the human equation. Hawking, who holds Newton’s chair as Lucasian professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, brilliantly laid out his view of the universe and ended with a humble assertion: the one question in need of an answer is the question of God. Science, with all of its strident gains, must still remain contented to describe the “what” of human observations. Only God can answer the “why.”

At one of my lectures on “Man’s Search for Meaning,” a student rose to his feet and shouted, “Ah, everything in life is meaningless.” I insisted that he could not possibly believe that. With an equally intense retort he countered that he did. This repetitive exchange went back and forth a few times. Then, not wanting to exacerbate the young man’s frustration and having planned for a safe departure from the campus, I decided to bring the discussion to an end. I asked him if he thought his statement was a meaningful one. There was an acute silence, and then he hesitantly answered, “Yes.” I only had to add that if his assertion was meaningful, then everything in life was not meaningless. If, on the other hand, everything was indeed meaningless, his assertion was meaningless too, and, therefore, in effect, he had said nothing.

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