Irreligion: Mathematical explanation why the arguments for GOD just don't add up

A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Any of you believe in God?” Which of the three is most likely to say yes? Answer: the mathematician. Mathematicians believe in God at a rate two and a half times that of biologists, a survey of members of the National Academy of Sciences a decade ago revealed. Admittedly, this rate is not very high in absolute terms. Only 14.6 percent of the mathematicians embraced the God hypothesis (versus 5.5 percent of the biologists).



But here is something you probably didn’t know. Most mathematicians believe in heaven. Not a heaven with angels, but one populated by the abstract objects they devote themselves to studying: perfect spheres, infinite numbers, the square root of minus one and the like.

Why evolution is true


Among the wonders that science has uncovered about the universe, no subject has sparked more fascination and fury than evolution. Yet in all the ongoing debates about creationism and its descendant, "intelligent design," one element of the controversy is rarely mentioned: the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection. And that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, drawn from a huge spectrum of scientific inquiry ranging from genetics, anatomy, and molecular biology to paleontology and geology.
hy Evolution Is True is a succinct and accessible summary of the facts supporting Darwinian evolution. Scientists today are finding species splitting in two, observing natural selection changing animals and plants before our eyes, and discovering more and more fossils capturing change in the past—dinosaurs that have sprouted feathers, fish that have grown limbs. Jerry Coyne eloquently shows that evolution does not destroy the beauty of life but enhances it.

The Atheist Bible


To stir secular intellectuals, American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett published Breaking the Spell. British scientist Richard Dawkins soon followed with The God Delusion.
At the same time, writer Sam Harris has kept grabbing middlebrow readers withLetters to a Christian Nation and other work. And, earlier this month, caustic British American culture critic Christopher Hitchens goosed atheism to best-sellerdom—his God Is Not Great debuted at No. 1 on the all-important New York Times list.
Any surprise that atheism now turns up as a gift book, the kind stackable by the register? If atheism’s going mass, after all, you need not just a sacred text but an easily portable one.
The Atheist’s Bible, compiled by former Columbia School of Journalism dean Joan Konner, gains its more-than-tchotchke credibility from the authority of its creator—an odd standard to apply to a pro-atheism book, but there

Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person’s Answer to Christian Fundamentalism


  Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person’s Answer to Christian Fundamentalism by David Mills is exactly what it says it is. Mills is a Bible-quoting atheist who rebuts the most common arguments used by Christian fundamentalists for the required existence of God. Many readers will be surprised to find out that Mills is a former “Jesus-freak” (his term, not mine) who used to try to convert his high school classmates to Christianity before he became an atheist.
Atheist Universe covers the following topics:

Quotation about Atheism- Part 2

PRESIDENTS AND STATESMEN
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
[Benjamin Franklin]
"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not care to
support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a
bad one."

Quotation about Atheism

VOLTAIRE
"What can we say to a man who tells you that he would rather obey God than men, and that therefore he is sure to go to
heaven for butchering you? Even the law is impotent against these attacks of rage; it is like reading a court decree to a
raving maniac. These fellows are certain that the holy spirit with which they are filled is above the law, that their
enthusiasm is the only law that they must obey."

The Origin Of Species


 Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature, considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin's book introduced the theory that populationsevolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.
Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public,

The Ancestor's tail by Richard Dawkins

 The Ancestor's Tale (subtitled A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life) is a 2004 popular science book byRichard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins' research assistant Yan Wong. It follows the path ofhumans backwards through evolutionary history, meeting humanity's cousins as they converge on common ancestors. The book was nominated for the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books.

God is not great


God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) is a book-length critique of religion by author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. It was published in the United Kingdom as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion.


Atheism: A philosophical justification




The first part, about 300 pages, is about Negative Atheism, or the position of simply refraining from belief in claims that a god exists because those claims lack sufficient force to warrant acceptance. In defense of this, Martin goes into great detail of every argument and every version of every argument offered in defense of the existence of gods - and he refutes them through extensive arguments and/or examples.