Summary of Eric Metaxas' Is Atheism Dead?

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Get the Summary of Eric Metaxas' Is Atheism Dead? in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is Atheism Dead? is a highly entertaining, impressively wide-ranging, and decidedly provocative answer to that famous 1966 TIME cover that itself provocatively asked “Is God Dead?” In a voice that is by turns witty, muscular, and poetic, Metaxas echoes C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in cheerfully and logically making his case, along the way presenting breathtaking—and sometimes astonishing—new evidence and arguments against the idea of a Creatorless universe. Taken all together, he shows that much we have assumed about the biggest questions of human existence is in fact dramatically outdated — and is therefore in need of the most urgent reevaluation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638157557

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#1

The tide has been turning, slowly but surely, in favor of God and evidence of His existence.

#2

The author wrote an article on Christmas Eve in 2014, which was shared online thousands of times within hours. It was titled Why I’m Not a Christian and Why You Shouldn’t Be Either. The article answered the questions: Is there a God. Can we know God rationally.

#3

The first three shifts are the Big Bang, fine-tuning, and the origins of life. All of these were discovered by scientists to be beyond the realm of possibility unless God exists.

#4

Atheism, as an ideology, has been proven to be false many times over.

#5

The author argues that theism is no longer a viable belief system, and that anyone wanting to be taken seriously should renounce their theism.

#6

The Big Bang is the story of the universe’s creation, and it is a story that involves many characters, most notably the American astronomer Allan Sandage.

#7

Hubble, in the 1920s, discovered that the universe was expanding. He found that some nebulae were galaxies far away, and not just within our own Milky Way.

#8

In 1919, a solar eclipse provided the perfect opportunity to observe the Theory of Relativity. It just so happened that a solar eclipse would take place on May 29, 1919, and last for seven minutes.

#9

In 1919, an English scientist by the name of Arthur Eddington performed an experiment that confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

#10

The Big Bang theory, which states that the universe began with a single point and has been expanding ever since, was first proposed in 1927 by Belgian priest Georges Lemaître.

#11

Even the greatest scientists have been known to cave to the pressures of the scientific community, and accept the prevailing consensus, even if it goes against their own research.

#12

The Big Bang theory is based on the idea that the universe began from a singularity. But because the laws of physics were obliterated at that point, some scientists have questioned if these laws could exist outside of the universe.

#13

In the late 1940s, a group of physicists began to postulate the existence of another type of singularity, one that existed outside of our universe.

#14

When discussing singularities, it is important to understand that they are not holes in space, but rather points within space where the laws of physics are dramatically changed.

#15

Despite what many scientists thought, the Big Bang did take place. And it wasn’t until the 1960s that the majority of scientists