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  The central
contention of the "New Atheism" of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is that there
has for several centuries been a war between science and religion, that religion has been steadily losing that war, and
that at this point in human history a completely secular scientific account of the world has been worked out in such
thorough and convincing detail that there is no longer any reason why a rational and educated person should find the
claims of any religion the least bit worthy of attention.
  
  But as Edward Feser argues in The Last
Superstition, in fact there is not, and never has been, any war between science and religion at all. There has instead
been a conflict between two entirely philosophical conceptions of the natural order: on the one hand, the classical
"teleological" vision of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, on which purpose or goal-directedness is as inherent
a feature of the physical world as mass or electric charge; and the modern "mechanical" vision of Descartes, Hobbes,
Locke, and Hume, according to which the physical world is comprised of nothing more than purposeless, meaningless
particles in motion. The modern "mechanical" picture has never been established by science, and cannot be, for it is not
a scientific theory in the first place but merely a philosophical interpretation of science.
  
  Not only is
this modern philosophical picture rationally unfounded, it is demonstrably false. For the "mechanical" conception of the
natural world, when worked out consistently, absurdly entails that rationality, and indeed the human mind itself, are
illusory. The so-called "scientific worldview" championed by the New Atheists thus inevitably undermines its own
rational foundations; and into the bargain it undermines the foundations of any possible morality as well.
  

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  Review
  "A thoughtful and theologically sophisticated sally into the ranks of
the New Atheism. Feser has written a lively and well informed polemic against the latest crop of Village Atheists -
Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, & Co. - who have provided the public with so much entertainment and so little
enlightenment these past few years. This is a serious and passionately engaged challenge to the latest effort to impose
a dehumanizing orthodoxy by religious illiterates." -- Roger Kimball, co-editor and publisher, The New Criterion
 

  "Edward Feser's book is a timely wake-up call to the many people who have been seduced by the amateurish
attempts at philosophy of religion found in the popular bestsellers of the `Faithless Foursome,' Dawkins, Dennett,
Hitchens, and Harris.
  
  "Feser shows that the so-called `New Atheism' is just the old atheism, only more
irrational. But at the same time as carrying out his incisive critique of all that is bad in contemporary popular
atheism, he presents an admirable 101 course in philosophy for people who care. About what? About the classical
metaphysical tradition going from the best of the ancient Greeks, through the medieval philosophers, and down to the
neo-Aristotelianism and neo-Thomism of today.
  
  "Anyone who comes away from The Last Superstition thinking
that potboiler atheism has anything to recommend it, or that belief in God is irrational, will not be convinced by
anything. For the rest of us, the book is, to use an apposite term, a godsend. And the caustic humour peppering the book
adds just the sort of spice this fraught subject needs. If the Faithless Foursome were at all interested in a serious
rebuttal, they now have it." -- David Oderberg, Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, UK
  
  "There
have been largely two types of critics of the `New Atheism.' One type grants the empiricism of the atheists and then
tries to show that belief in God is consistent with it. This approach gives away the store by removing God from the
realm of the knowable. The second also grants the atheists' empiricism, but argues that it leads to the detection of
design in the universe and thus the existence of God. This approach gives away the store as well, by limiting knowledge
to the empirically detectable. Professor Feser offers us a third approach, one that is far more effective in defeating
the New Atheism. He provides persuasive arguments that show that God is knowable and that what is knowable is larger
than the set of that which is empirically detectable. This is a tour de force that should be in the library of every
thinking citizen, believer or unbeliever." -- Francis J. Beckwith, Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies,
Baylor University
  
  “New Atheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Sam
Harris get their comeuppance from philosopher Feser in the spirit with which they abuse believers. ‘Their books
stand out for their manifest ignorance’ of the Western religious tradition, he says, ‘and for the
breathtaking shallowness of their philosophical analysis of religious matters.’ Far better than such no-quarters
rhetoric, however, are the review of pre-Aristotelian philosophy and the summary of Aristotelian metaphysics and Thomas
Aquinas’ refinements of Aristotle that make up the heart, soul, and bulk of the book. Feser chooses to argue from
Aristotle because he was not arguing from any religious perspective and because Aristotle’s logic, his
rationality, hasn’t been improved upon or refuted by modern philosophy. Aristotle’s proof that there is a
prime mover or pure being – God – remains solid. Ignoramuses like the four horsemen of the apostasy, whose
factual errors, half-truths, and mischaracterization Feser highlights with contemptuous glee, ‘refute’
Aristotle only by changing the playing field from metaphysics to science, from philosophical realism to materialism.
With energy and humor as well as transparent exposition, Feser reestablishes the unassailable superiority of classical
philosophy.” --Ray Olson, ALA Booklist, starred review, October 1, 2008
  
  Richard Dawkins, the Oxford
biologist and prominent atheist, argues in The God Delusion that belief in God is outdated. Before 1859, it was
reasonable to think that life on earth had been designed.... But, Dawkins maintains, Charles Darwin changed all that. He
showed that adaptations could be explained by natural selection. No appeal to an intelligent designer is required.
Darwin thus made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
  
  Professor Edward Feser argues in
his brilliant new book The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism that Dawkins has it all wrong. God is not
a hypothesis, to be replaced if a more satisfactory theory comes up. Quite the contrary, Feser suggests, the existence
of God can be proved by rationally compelling arguments. He thinks that not only is Dawkins wrong about this but so are
his fellow atheists Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, all three of whom are frequently subject to humorous and
telling remarks.
  
  Feser’s is a bold claim indeed, one very much out of philosophical fashion. In
mainstream Anglo-American philosophy, the dominant position is that Hume and Kant long ago showed that the theistic
proofs do not work. To overturn this verdict is a formidable task, and to accomplish it Feser needs to present a great
deal of background material. The principal reason, he holds, that modern philosophers reject the theistic proofs is
that, since the Enlightenment, they have accepted a truncated notion of causation. Today, philosophers think of a cause
as one event, preceding another in time that brings it about. As an example, if I light a match, these philosophers
would take this to mean that the event of striking the match is followed by the event of the fire’s
appearance.
  
  This departs from Aristotle’s delineation of four causes, efficient, final, formal,
and material. Aristotle’s efficient cause corresponds most closely to the modern view, but even here the
resemblance is not very strong. Aristotle thought efficient causation involved a substance rather than an event: I, not
the event of striking the match, cause the fire.
  
  To grasp Aristotle’s doctrine of causation,
developed and extended by Thomas Aquinas and other scholastics, Feser needs to go back to Plato to explain the famous
problem of universals. He argues against the view that universals are merely words or concepts in our minds. Instead, he
favors the moderate realism of Aristotle and Aquinas. All this may sound abstract, but it is essential to understanding
the way in which Feser thinks that God’s existence can be proved. Readers who are willing to cope with this
rather difficult material will gain something else, besides being in a position to understand the theistic proofs. They
will learn a great deal about the history of philosophy. I have never seen the topics that Feser discusses presented so
clearly. It is an effort well worth the effort. --David Gordon, Ludwig von Mises Institute, for The American
Conservative Union Foundation, Issue 120, November 19, 2008
  Review
  “The Last Superstition
should be assigned reading, and not only for those who think philosophical know-nothings like Richard Dawkins and
Christopher Hitchens hot stuff. ‘Secularism,’ says author Edward Feser, ‘is, necessarily and
inherently, a deeply irrational and immoral view of the world, and the more thoroughly it is assimilated by its
adherents, the more thoroughly do they cut themselves off from the very possibility of rational and moral
understanding.’ Feser gives the ‘New Atheists’ a dose of their own polemical medicine, but with a
difference: Unlike them, he knows what he is doing. This rollicking counter-attack is learned, carefully reasoned, and
philosophically astute.” 
  
  Publisher: St Augustine's Press (1 January
2009)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10: 1587314517
  ISBN-13: 978-1587314513
  
   						

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