Review of The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions, by Alex Rosenberg

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(Original review by Leon Wieseltier, at The New Republic...)

"NOT LONG AGO the prestige of science was nastily contested by American politics, as conservatism’s war on evolution, environmental science, and other forms of empirical research threatened to confound the American sense of reality. It was George W. Bush against Francis Bacon. Against

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I'm sure that he had tongue planted firmly in cheek when he did it.

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Or maybe he's so hip and ironic that he's actually a closet Thomist revealing just how essentially uncool it is to be nihilist through his posing as one. That could be it...

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I wonder how someone gets a degree while being this stupid.

I take it that you don't work in academia?

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Ah, well that might have resulted in a reduced immunity to such examples of the absurd as The Nice Nihilist. Having spent enough time in a university, it would take a tenured, two-headed orangutan on a unicycle reciting The Bhagavad Gita in Spanish to get me to lift an eyebrow. This barely merits an eye-roll. :-p