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A Doubter's Doubts about Science and Religion Robert Anderson

A Doubter's Doubts about Science and Religion By Robert Anderson

A Doubter's Doubts about Science and Religion by Robert Anderson


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Anonymously published in 1889 and later ascribed to intelligence officer and theological writer Robert Anderson, this book was an appeal to sceptics and free thinkers. Examining the arguments of religion and science with respect to existentialist questions, Anderson finds them both wanting, and urges belief in an unknown God.

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A Doubter's Doubts about Science and Religion: By a Criminal Lawyer by Robert Anderson

This 1889 volume was published anonymously and later ascribed to Robert Anderson, a barrister and theological writer who became Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard. Mixing his religious beliefs with his detective skills, Anderson argues for true scepticism to be embraced, comparing the tricks played on people by organised religion and science to the scams of confidence tricksters. Writing from a self-confessed standpoint of 'destructive criticism', Anderson discredits the theory of evolution as a newfangled superstition. Science, he says, assumes the existence of life, but has not the answer to the basic question - how did man come to be? 'The man who can give no account of his existence is a fool, and he who denies a god can give no account of his existence.' A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion proposes that the true sceptic cannot deny that the origin of life exists under the name of God.

Table of Contents

Introductory note and nine untitled chapters arguing that the origin of life exists under the name of 'God'.

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NLS9781108000147
9781108000147
1108000142
A Doubter's Doubts about Science and Religion: By a Criminal Lawyer by Robert Anderson
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2009-07-20
140
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