MATHEMATICIAN John Allen Paulos wades through the classical arguments for the existence of God and systematically refutes them. Much of the book echoes Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion, albeit a bit less impassioned. It is readable and concise, with moments of great logical rigour and dry wit, but I was hoping for a novel mathematical perspective on the debate. Aside from a few musings – for instance, using cellular automata and fractals to prove that complexity in the world doesn’t require a complex designer – the book covers well-trodden ground.
Irreligion
Hill & Wang
