Author : Jack E. Brush
Publisher : LIT Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3643963955
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Book Synopsis The Blind Watch by : Jack E. Brush
Download or read book The Blind Watch written by Jack E. Brush and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blind Watch has a twofold purpose. Firstly, it aims to expose some of the salient inadequacies and fallacies of modern atheism. Secondly, and more fundamentally, it is intended to expand our thinking about nature in general and about the meaning of nature for a Christian understanding of human beings. For systematic reasons, the book focuses on Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker, which has become a classic on modern atheism. In contrast to Dawkins' work, the present book describes the watch, i.e. the atheistic scientist, not the watchmaker, as blind, insofar as the scientist calculates everything, but sees very little. By confronting the atheism of Dawkins with the philosophical (Heraclitus and the Stoics) and the theological (the Apostle Paul and Augustine) traditions, the book develops a fundamental understanding of nature as nature that leads to a definition of life quite different from that of the evolutionary biologists. Prof. Dr. Brush studied engineering, philosophy and theology at Vanderbilt University, the University of Zürich, and Harvard University. As Professor of Theology at the University of Zürich, he specialized in the relationship between science and theology.