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God: The Failed Hypothesis
AuthorVictor J. Stenger
Cover artistPhotoDisc, Inc.
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience
PublisherPrometheus Books
Publication date
2007
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages294 pp
ISBNISBN 1591024811 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
Preceded byThe Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do The Laws Of Physics Come From? 

God: The Failed Hypothesis is a 2007 New York Times bestseller[1] by scientist Victor J. Stenger who argues that there is no evidence for the existence of a deity and that a God's existence is improbable.

David Ludden of Skeptic magazine wrote that "Stenger lays out the evidence from cosmology, particle physics and quantum mechanics showing that the universe appears exactly as it should if there is no creator."[2] Ludden concluded "All freethinkers should have both volumes [The God Delusion], side by side, on their bookshelves." Damien Broderick wrote, "Stenger offers an answer to that deep question in his two new books, arguing a materialist, God-free account of the cosmos, equally antagonistic to superstition, the paranormal and religions archetypal and newfangled alike. He refuses to accept the polite accommodation urged by agnostic Stephen Jay Gould that science and religion can never be in conflict as they are non-overlapping 'magisteria'."[3]

References

  1. ^ Prometheus Books
  2. ^ "Conspicuous by His Absence". Skeptic. April 4, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "God: The Failed Hypothesis / The Comprehensible Cosmos". The Australian. March 10, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)