Jose Carillo's English Forum - Advice and Dissent

ADVICE AND DISSENT

This section features discussions on education, learning and teaching, and language with particular focus on English. The primary subjects to be taken up here are notable advocacies and contrary viewpoints in these disciplines and their allied fields. Our primary aim is to clarify matters and issues of importance to language and learning, provide intelligent and useful instruction, promote rational and critical thinking, and enhance the individual’s overall capacity for discernment.

Excerpts from Newberger’s 36 Arguments for the Existence of God

In a new novel that provocatively blends fiction and nonfiction, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein essays her thoughts about what is perhaps the longest running argument in human history: Is there a God that’s omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent? Through the character Cass Seltzer, a psychologist who has become a celebrity by writing a book that explains “how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience,” Goldstein boldly takes on the ambitious God-existence theme by crossing over into the realm of fiction.

36 Arguments for the Existence of God

The third-culture web magazine Edge, in a recent edition, presents an excerpt from the first chapter of Goldstein’s book along with its nonfiction appendix where she presents the 36 arguments for the existence of God, then points out one by one what she contends are the flaws in those arguments.

Read the review in Edge of the 36 Arguments for the Existence of God now!

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