Is He Out There

Author : Paul Laffan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781782847762

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Is He Out There? by Paul Laffan Pdf

Is He Out There? is an interdisciplinary examination of the Christian reaction to Dawkinss The God Delusion. That reaction has offered a wide range of counter-arguments, among them: that Dawkinss demonstration of how God almost certainly doesnt exist addresses an out-dated conception of God; that science and religion are not conflictual as Dawkins contends and indeed may well be converging upon an understanding of how God acts in the universe; that Dawkinss denigration of the Bible depends on an overly literal reading; and that Dawkins assumes a narrative of progress in which human beings take the place of God in controlling the course of history. Is He Out There? responds to these arguments in the context of current scientific understanding, biblical criticism and philosophy. Paul Laffan demonstrates how the desire to meet the challenge posed by Dawkinss viewpoint has led to the perversion of scientific theories and accepted positions in other important fields of inquiry. It suggests that Christianity is wedded to a God who is the cause of the universe a classical conception of cause that is anachronistic; that denying the Bible was read for most of the Christian era as offering a literal account of divine creation is a significant misrepresentation of doctrinal history; and that a complete dismissal of progress requires the dismissal of scientific achievement. The author considers the extent to which attractive, secular values like tolerance and freedom of opinion are Christian in source and whether moral systems require God to underwrite them. The wide-ranging nature of Is He Out There? not only provides a review of the state of contemporary Christian apology but is a measured address of the arguments put forward in The God Delusion and indeed of the substantive commentary on Dawkinss thesis.

Author : A.M. Griffin
Publisher : Three Twenty-One, LLC
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In Danger's Embrace by A.M. Griffin Pdf

In many ways, my life is complete, or as complete as it can be with aliens roaming Earth, killing and enslaving humans. Jason, my love, is by my side, and my friendship with Wade is back on track. Even better, it seems the threats of annihilation from the aliens have turned out to be nothing but hot air. Yet, despite the peace of our Arrowwood refuge, there is still a war waging outside, something I’ve tried not to think too much about. Just as I’ve ignored the fact that a sanctuary can also be a prison, or a tomb, we are forced to step out of safety and live or die, in danger’s embrace.

Author : Charles F. David
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499008302

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Eli and the Blue Star by Charles F. David Pdf

This book ELI and the BLUE STAR is a spin off from this author’s previous book ELI. In the book ELI, the United States was attacked with Nuclear weapons delivered by countries that have long awaited to deliver death and destruction upon the U.S. The character ELI and the men that follow him take the fight to the enemy that invade us. These men are those that would be responsible for turning things around in our favor.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1638 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081774097

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Contested-election Case of James I. Campbell V. Robert L. Doughton from the Eighth Congressional District of North Carolina by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : Fritz Leiber
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612103501

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What's He Doing in There? by Fritz Leiber Pdf

He went where no Martian ever went before--but would he come out--or had he gone for good?ExcerptThe Professor was congratulating Earth's first visitor from another planet on his wisdom in getting in touch with a cultural anthropologist before contacting any other scientists (or governments, God forbid!), and in learning English from radio and TV before landing from his orbit-parked rocket, when the Martian stood up and said hesitantly, "Excuse me, please, but where is it?"That baffled the Professor and the Martian seemed to grow anxious--at least his long mouth curved upward, and he had earlier explained that it curling downward was his smile--and he repeated, "Please, where is it?"He was surprisingly humanoid in most respects, but his complexion was textured so like the rich dark armchair he'd just been occupying that the Professor's pin-striped gray suit, which he had eagerly consented to wear, seemed an arbitrary interruption between him and the chair--a sort of Mother Hubbard dress on a phantom conjured from its leather.The Professor's Wife, always a perceptive hostess, came to her husband's rescue by saying with equal rapidity, "Top of the stairs, end of the hall, last door."The Martian's mouth curled happily downward and he said, "Thank you very much," and was off.Comprehension burst on the Professor. He caught up with his guest at the foot of the stairs."Here, I'll show you the way," he said."No, I can find it myself, thank you," the Martian assured him.

Author : Kate Folk
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593231470

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Out There by Kate Folk Pdf

A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, “[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror” (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad). “Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.”—Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble FINALIST FOR THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.

Author : Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112106516732

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Minutes of Proceedings of the Metropolitan Board of Works by Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England) Pdf

Author : Michael Frayn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350013681

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Frayn Plays: 1 by Michael Frayn Pdf

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman... a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplicity, and unusual in the way that the two types of women do not become stereotypes" (Daily Telegraph); Donkeys' Years, a satire on the establishment and British Institutions "Gorgeous farce, all the funnier for emerging from credible aspirations and natural anxieties... the play is richer and cannier than we expect farces to be." (New Statesman); Clouds, is a satire on government sponsored trips and a portrait of sexual jealousy,"it is poignantly and unerringly funny" (Guardian); Make and Break is a satirical commentary on British corporate interests abroad "Full of pain, ruthless observation, and a sense of humour which is sardonic, lunatic and warm" (Sunday Times); Noises Off - the West End hit play about a company of actors stepping from a sex farce into their own nightmarish lives backstage "A very intelligent joke about the fragility of all forms of drama...a pulverisingly funny play." (Guardian) "All of these plays are attempts to show something of the world, not to change it or to promote any particular idea of it. That's not to say there are no ideas in them. In fact what they are all about in one way or another is the way in which we impose our ideas upon the world around us...it might be objected that one single theme is a somewhat sparse provision to sustain five separate and dissimilar plays. I can only say that it is a theme which has occupied philosophers for over two thousand years and one which is likely to occupy them for at least two thousand more..."(Michael Frayn)

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338048349

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The violent bear it away by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

Here is a dark Gothic novel set in the backwoods of the deep South of America. Francis Tarwater is a young orphaned boy who has been raised by his elderly relative in an isolated and fanatical way. When the old man dies Tarwater must find his own way and break a kind of curse that has been laid upon him.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050132534

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Investigation of Illegal Or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2202 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Propaganda
ISBN : UIUC:30112065529395

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Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307762177

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The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-in-1 by Rex Stout Pdf

A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction’s greatest detectives. Here, in Stout’s third and fourth complete Wolfe mysteries, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, solve two of their most baffling cases. The Rubber Band What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe’s job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal that could rebound on the great detective and his partner, Archie, with fatal abruptness. The Red Box Murder by chocolate? That’s the premise Nero Wolfe must operate from when a beautiful woman is poisoned after indulging in a box of candy. It’s a case that the great detective—no stranger himself to overindulgence—is loath to take for a variety of reasons, including that it may require that he leave his comfortable brownstone. But he and Archie are compelled by a mystery that mixes high fashion and low motives…and a killer who may have made the deadliest mistake.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210014699563

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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lindsey Lane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374300630

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Evidence of Things Not Seen by Lindsey Lane Pdf

When high school junior Tommy Smythe goes missing, everyone has a theory about what happened to him. He was an odd kid, often deeply involved in particle physics, so maybe he just got distracted and wandered off. He was last seen at a pullout off the highway, so maybe someone snatched him. Tommy believes that everything is possible, and that until something can be proven false, it may be true. So as long as Tommy's whereabouts are undetermined, he could literally be anywhere.Told in a series of first-person narratives from people who knew Tommy, Evidence of Things Not Seen by award-winning author Lindsey Lane explores themes of loneliness, connectedness, and the role we play in creating our own realities.

Author : Tess Gerritsen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 2511 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345541178

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The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle by Tess Gerritsen Pdf

Tess Gerritsen has thrilled countless readers with her acclaimed novels of suspense featuring Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. TNT struck ratings gold with Rizzoli & Isles, a series based on Gerritsen’s New York Times bestsellers. And now the first nine Rizzoli & Isles novels are together in one convenient eBook bundle. “Suspense doesn’t get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory.”—Lee Child, on The Silent Girl This bundle includes the following titles: THE SURGEON THE APPRENTICE THE SINNER BODY DOUBLE VANISH THE MEPHISTO CLUB THE KEEPSAKE ICE COLD THE SILENT GIRL And don’t miss the thrilling excerpt of Tess Gerritsen’s new Rizzoli & Isles novel, Last to Die. “[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.”—Chicago Tribune