![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. "David Berlinski plus any topic equals an extraordinary book." Behe, Professor of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, bestselling author of "Darwin's Black Box "and "The Edge of Evolution" Maybe they can recite the Periodic Table by heart, but the secular Berlinski shows that this doesn't get them very far in reasoning about much weightier matters." "With high style and light-hearted disdain, David Berlinski deflates the intellectual pretensions of the scientific atheist crowd. "Berlinski's book is everything desirable: it is idiomatic, profound, brilliantly polemical, amusing, and of course vastly learned. Harvey Mansfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensionsby David Berlinski Crown Forum, 237 pages, 23.95 It is at once lamentable and understandable that academics, wishing applause from other academics, proffer far-fetched theses. David Berlinski proceeds reasonably and calmly to challenge recent scientific theorizing and to expose the unreason from which it presumes to criticize religion." ![]() "A powerful riposte to atheist mockery and cocksure science, and to the sort of philosophy that surrenders to them. Tom Bethell, bestselling author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science ![]() He makes great sport with his opponents, and his readers will surely enjoy it." "Berlinski knows his science and wields his rapier deftly. ![]()
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