Is the evidence for God’s existence weak? Well, a new book by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues otherwise. In Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, Douthat maintains not only that everyone should take God seriously, but that doing so is more rational than the alternative.
Marshalling insights from science and philosophy, to Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and psychedelic trips, to mystical encounters and the collective wisdom of human cultures past and present — including the converging testimony of major world religions — Douthat lucidly reasons that theism rather than atheism has “the better case by far for being true.”
To begin, he considers various lines of evidence from modern science, including the so-called “anthropic coincidences” discovered by contemporary physics. These coincidences show that, despite
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