Theism or Atheism, page 1 by Chapman Cohen

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Chapter VI.

The Argument from Design 69

Chapter VII.

The Disharmonies of Nature 85

Chapter VIII.

God and Evolution 94

Chapter IX.

The Problem of Pain 110

Part II.

SUBSTITUTES FOR ATHEISM.

Chapter X.

A Question of Prejudice 131

Chapter XI.

What is Atheism? 138

Chapter XII.

Spencer and the Unknowable 151

Chapter XIII.

Agnosticism 169

Chapter XIV.

Atheism and Morals 181

Chapter XV.

Atheism Inevitable 194


PREFACE.

Shrouded in the cloak of philosophy, the question of the existence of God continues to attract attention, and, I may add, to command more respect than it deserves. For it is only by a subterfuge that it assumes the rank of philosophy. "God" enters into philosophy only when it is beginning to lose caste in its proper home, and then in its new environment it undergoes such a transformation as to contain very little likeness to its former, and proper, self. It disowns its parentage and claims another origin, and, like so many genealogists devising pedigrees for the parvenu, certain philosophers attempt to map out for the newcomer an ancestry to which he can establish no valid claim. Nothing would, indeed, surprise the ancestor more than to be brought face to face with his descendant. He would

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