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Books

New Atheist Books

Tim Madigan has a New Atheist round-up.

There has been a plethora of books issued on the topic of the New Atheism, pro and con. In addition to the bestselling titles by Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens, the so-called ‘Four Horsemen of Atheism’ referred to in previous articles, here are some recent books that add to the discussion:

The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor J. Stenger (Prometheus Books, 2009).

An invigorating defense of the New Atheism by one of its foremost spokespersons, this is a good book for novices, as it has an excellent overview of the positions of the Four Horsemen, as well as Stenger’s own argument that modern physics gives new proofs for a naturalistic rather than a supernaturalistic hypothesis for the origins of the universe. A professor of physics and astronomy, Stenger is able to write in a way easily accessible to non-science buffs, yet has a polemical style equal to any of the Horsemen at their most outrageous.

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