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What Do You Think of My Latest Blog Post?
Posted by ArizonaAtheist • 5/24/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: atheism, book review, christianity, david marshall, religion
Hi everyone. I was curious what everyone might think of my most recent blog post. I've done a handful of book reviews/refutations the last few years and I've gotten quite a few kudos on them. I wanted to find out what everyone thought of this particular one.
To put everything on the table, I should let everyone know that this review is of a book by a christian apologist named David Marshall called "The Truth Behind the New Atheism." It's a book that seeks to expose the so called "New Atheists'" errors in their writings. In case you're unfamiliar with who the "New Atheists" are, they are most notably, Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion"; Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian Nation"; Christopher Hicthens, author of "god is Not Great"; and Daniel C. Dennett, author of "Breaking the Spell". My goal in the review was to point out Marshall's errors in his book. I think I did a good job and I'm always looking for feedback about it.
Be forewarned though. It's about 103 pages long. If someone just wants to read and comment on certain parts due to its length, I won't mind : ) That's a lot to read.
It can be found here:
arizonaatheist.blogspot.com/2009/05/truth-behind-new-atheism-refutation.htm...
Thanks!
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Hi dbowles1017,
Yeah, it's 103 pages long. The reason it's so long is it's technically a refutation - a very detailed refutation for the most part, which is why it's so long. Instead of being a standard "review" talking about the book my goal was along the lines of a refutation; pointing out the errors Marshall made in his own book.-
I clicked through to your blog. I saw what looked like a video screen with no contents and I clicked through to another site, where once again I saw what looked like a video screen with nothing on it. I'm visually impaired and I'm all clicked out.
May I please just have the PDF download link?
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Sure, you can download it from Scribd.com, though you need an account to download content. But they have a flexible viewer that allows you to enlarge the text and whatnot.
www.scribd.com/doc/6654489/The-Truth-Behind-the-New-Atheism-A-Refutation- -
This is now becoming feedback. I have clicked into your blog and the scribd site multiple times. I cannot use the viewer on your blog or on scribd. Is this because I don't have an Scribd.com account?
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I don't have an account and I can see it just fine.
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Do you think it's Firfeox AdBlock Plus blocking it then?
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I've got AdBlock Plus and no problems. Have you disabled Javascript or Flash?
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Nope, javascript enabled and flash too.
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Neither browser works, then? Maybe they're intentionally trying to keep you from reading 103 pages!
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It's perplexing but I'm letting it go because I have no trouble with any sites other than Scribd.com
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Thanks for posting that, I am very interested in reading it, but feedback will take me a while, lots of pages.-
Thanks for reading, theskinnyblog.
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Who is David Marshall by the way, I'm new here so I don't know any of the history, just googled him and got a lot of random answers!
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theskinnyblog,
David Marshall is, as I mentioned, a christian apologist. His goal is to present as strong a case as he can for his personal christian beliefs. He surely isn't as well known as, say, William Lane Craig, for example (assuming you follow this stuff :-) ), but his arguments are pretty much the same as even more popular apologists. He writes books and goes on speaking tours at churches and things, giving talks about much of the same stuff he writes about.
His website can be found here:
christthetao.homestead.com/
The website featuring his book can be found here:
www.harvesthousepublishers.com/books_nonfictionbook.cfm?productID=6922128
The amazon.com page for his book can be found here:
www.amazon.com/Truth-Behind-New-Atheism-Christianity/dp/0736922121
I hope that's enough info. : )-
Thanks for that!
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Hi timethief,
I'm sorry you're having trouble. You don't need an account to just view the files on Scrib.com. But you do need an account to download them. I hope you can get it to work.
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