vin_aigre reviewed God Explained In A Taxi Ride by Paul Arden
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1 star
“Look, he said, pointing at the sunset. What do you think made that? Do you think it’s an accident? Do you think it’s a trick of the light? Do you think it’s a fluke?”
Uhm, Rayleigh’s scattering perhaps? I love it how the clueless author decides to end his masterpiece with this jaw-dropping bad piece of argument. Not that there were any arguments worth mentioning in the first place, which makes the claim he makes at the front cover, that his “book explains once and for all [the existence of God]”, all the more presumptuous. On atheism, the author writes: “But isn’t a firm belief in the non-existence of a God a religion in itself?” My my, what a life-changing eyes-widening revelation you stumbled upon Paul. Too bad I conjured this argument when I was eighteen and found out it wasn’t an argument at all when I was still eighteen. …
“Look, he said, pointing at the sunset. What do you think made that? Do you think it’s an accident? Do you think it’s a trick of the light? Do you think it’s a fluke?”
Uhm, Rayleigh’s scattering perhaps? I love it how the clueless author decides to end his masterpiece with this jaw-dropping bad piece of argument. Not that there were any arguments worth mentioning in the first place, which makes the claim he makes at the front cover, that his “book explains once and for all [the existence of God]”, all the more presumptuous. On atheism, the author writes: “But isn’t a firm belief in the non-existence of a God a religion in itself?” My my, what a life-changing eyes-widening revelation you stumbled upon Paul. Too bad I conjured this argument when I was eighteen and found out it wasn’t an argument at all when I was still eighteen. On the “proof of God”, the author proceeds as follows:“1. We define God as that for which there is no greater. 2. God is perfection. 3. Perfection that actually exists must be greater than merely the idea of perfection. 4. Therefore God must exist: He is that for which there is no greater, and the mere idea of perfection is not as great as perfection that actually exists.”Besides the fact that point three makes no more sense than a high male raccoon in a fluorescent tutu, the argumentation is painstakingly fallible. Ever heard of that thing called logic algebra whereas a false proposition may infer claptrap? Apparently not. Since you wrote a whole book with nothing but claptrap inside.
