Atheism and How it Almost Ruined My Life
Patrick Meagher considers the fundamental questions that confront all of us on our solitary pilgrimage; better, he provides short, pithy answers to those troubling questions, answers steeped in common sense and orthodox Christianity.” ~ Ian Hunter, lawyer, columnist and author has practised and taught journalism and law in Canada for 40 years
All teens and young adults need to read this witty, concise and enjoyable book.” ~ Lea Singh, Editor of CultureWitness.com
PATRICK MEAGHER is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author of Perhaps, I Love You More, a collection of anecdotes about Pope John Paul the Great.
Meagher has worked across Canada for newspapers, magazines and in radio, including CBC, and is the publisher of Farmers Forum, an Ontario agricultural newspaper.
He has worked as an associate editor of Mercatornet.com, an Australian-based social commentary website, business editor of The Bermuda Sun, and as managing editor of Toronto-based Catholic Register.
He and his wife and their seven children live in Ottawa, Canada.
WHY GOD IS HIDING: Atheism and How it Almost Ruined My Life
CONTENTS
- My Search For The Meaning Of Life 14
- In The Beginning, A “Steady State” Or A “Big Bang”? 19
- You Can’t Get Something From Nothing 22
- Evolution By Design Or By Accident 24
- Atheism, Evolution, And Charles Darwin 28
- The Horror Of Darwinist Thinking 32
- Pick One: Darwin, Darwinists Or Science 35
- Organisms Are Too Complex To Be Accidents 37
- Accidents Don’t Make Order From Chaos 39
- Can Anything Happen Over Time? 41
- Things That Reveal A Design Need A Designer 44
- So God, So What? 46
- A Watch Needs A Watchmaker 50
- The Cambrian Explosion 53
- We Do Evolve, Sort Of 55
- What If Scientists “Create” Life? 57
- The Cell Ain’t Simple 59
- The Odds Of Life Favour A Miracle 63
- Alien Creator? Intelligent Designer? God? 67
- Aliens Maybe, But God Never 68
- When Science Is Dumb, Theology Picks Up The Slack 70
- Einstein’s Blunder 73
- Pascal’s Wager: Have I Got A Deal For You 74
- Who Created God? 76
- Outside Of Time? Outside Of Space? 80
- God Must Exist 82
- Why Is God Hiding? 84
- Can’t See Him, Can’t Touch Him, But We Contemplate Him 86
- Be Still And Know God 88
- Beauty Points To God 89
- God Gave Me A Miracle 93
- Miracles Point To God 97
- Ghosts, The Unexplained,And Near-Death Experiences 99
- Evil Points To The Supernatural 104
- We Know There Is Right And Wrong (Natural Law 101) 106
- Why So Many Atheists? 108
- Atheists Persuaded By Unknown God And Sex 111
- An Atheist Is Guilty 113
- So What Are My Choices? 115
- Is Jesus For Real? 118
- A Lawyer Argues That Jesus Is God 121
- Christianity Good, Christianity Bad 124
- Best Arguments Against Christianity Are Christians 126
- Why Do Bad Things Happen to good people
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