In this gleeful contribution to the ongoing debate between faith and reason, evolutionary biologist P. Z. Myers takes a well-sharpened pickaxe to irrational thinking, superstition and supernaturalism wherever he encounters it. For 'P. Z.', Stephen Jay Gould had it wrong: science and religion do NOT reconcile.
In this wide-ranging, challenging and constantly entertaining book no religious apologist escapes the ire of the uncompromising Myers. Trapped in his sights are Christian fundamentalists, the 'intelligent design' movement, accommodationists who plead 'I am an atheist, but...' and theologians and their intellectual fellow-travellers, from Alasdair McGrath to Karen Armstrong, and from Terry Eagleton to the former head of the Human Genome Project.
But The Happy Atheist is more than a rationalist call-to-arms. Presenting new revelations in evolutionary biology, delighting in the rich diversity of the natural world, bursting with enthusiasm for arthropods, cephalopods and exotic invertebrates, and respecting only the rules of its author's stringently applied rationalism, The Happy Atheist marks the debut of a scientific popularizer with a unique voice as well as a rich talent for controversy.
- ISBN10 0307379345
- ISBN13 9780307379344
- Publish Date 13 August 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 24 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pantheon Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English