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a paean to science Times Literary Supplement genuine enjoyment Times Higher Education Supplement Peter Atkins answers...succinctly and elegantly. Nature An effortless read - a real page turner. BBC Focus
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In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers. With his usual economy, wit, and elegance, unswerving before awkward realities, Atkins presents what science has to say. While acknowledging the comfort some find in belief, he declares his own faith in science's capacity to reveal the deepest truths.
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Faith v. Science
10. Juli 2011
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This is a very short and very dense book that uses science as an antidote to faith based assertions regarding creation, god, life after death, the rapture, the universe etc.
Atkins is an eloquent writer with a wry sense of humor but his scientific rebuttal of these myths is too technical. To his credit he urges the reader to skip some parts making a short book even shorter. He justifies his style as being a necessary counter to various versions of myths but in the exposition of this style he becomes tedious and boring.
Atkins is an eloquent writer with a wry sense of humor but his scientific rebuttal of these myths is too technical. To his credit he urges the reader to skip some parts making a short book even shorter. He justifies his style as being a necessary counter to various versions of myths but in the exposition of this style he becomes tedious and boring.
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Naive British Materialist
18. Februar 2012
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As an antidote to this book, I would recommend Atkins' colleague at Oxford David Deutsch and his book The Beginning of Infinity. Not only does Deutsch delve into similar topics much more incisively, he also usefully circumscribes the failings of writers like Atkins, Dawkins and the other Naive British Materialists (or NBMs). I can only recommend this book as a good example of NBM thinking.
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Garbage
31. Januar 2012
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Book motto (pg. 20): "Everything is driven by purposeless decay", according to Atkins (or rather according to the second law, as Atkins anthropomorphizes it).
Whether or not there is purpose is the universe, or more to the point whether or not there is purpose to an animated driven molecule (which is what humans are) brought into existence, is certainly an blurry and yet unsolved query, but Atkins' agenda (a condensed rehash of his 1992 book Creation Revisited: The Origin of Space, Time and the Universe (Penguin Science)) is pure mi-representation. Laplace discarded "God" from science over 200 years ago, famously as told to Napoleon, as an unneeded hypothesis, but Atkins (like other bandwagon lay-science authors), continues to scatter his text with "God this" and "God that", etc. The time has come to have some writing with balls. I mean really? It's one thing to fill up one's speech into overextended poetic verbosity (as Atkins is so common to in his video recorded religion vs. science debates), but to platform a supposed atheist book on watered down versions of the second law, by a (respected?) physical chemist, is a disgrace to physical chemists everywhere.
Nowhere in his standard multi-edition Physical Chemistry textbook does Atkins define the second law as the "tendency of energy to chaos" or "all change is driven by purposeless decay" or chemical reactions occur by "purposeless spreading of matter and energy in ever greater disorder", yet when he switches gears to do battle with the religious, he distorts and laymanizes thermodynamics into polemical garbage.
Atkins is certainly not alone in this unnamed "syndrome" many hardened godless scientists succumb to, but nevertheless is need of dose of hard core chemical thermodynamic reality. Shame on Atkins for selling out on the publisher dollar and on his own discipline.
As German human physical chemist Goethe lamented correctly over 200 years ago: "the moral symbols of natural science, and the humanities, are those of physical chemistry". Atkins would do well to take some tips. A recent example a real second law / physical chemistry based book would be American physical chemist Thomas Wallace's 2009 Wealth, Energy, And Human Values: The Dynamics Of Decaying Civilizations From Ancient Greece To America, with its appendix "The Fundamentals of Thermodynamics Applied to Socioeconomics". Atkins would be wise to pause for reflection before wasting anymore paper in another tailcoat book.
Garbage aside, Atkins wastes an entire chapter (1/5th of book) discussing how a dead body decomposes and cools (according to Newton's law of cooling) over the course of so many hours; and to top it all off: he gives an incorrect presentation of Egyptology, confusing the "ba" (soul) with the "ka" (spirit); and never even talks about "being" or "existence", which as we were led to believe would be the subject matter of the book?
Whether or not there is purpose is the universe, or more to the point whether or not there is purpose to an animated driven molecule (which is what humans are) brought into existence, is certainly an blurry and yet unsolved query, but Atkins' agenda (a condensed rehash of his 1992 book Creation Revisited: The Origin of Space, Time and the Universe (Penguin Science)) is pure mi-representation. Laplace discarded "God" from science over 200 years ago, famously as told to Napoleon, as an unneeded hypothesis, but Atkins (like other bandwagon lay-science authors), continues to scatter his text with "God this" and "God that", etc. The time has come to have some writing with balls. I mean really? It's one thing to fill up one's speech into overextended poetic verbosity (as Atkins is so common to in his video recorded religion vs. science debates), but to platform a supposed atheist book on watered down versions of the second law, by a (respected?) physical chemist, is a disgrace to physical chemists everywhere.
Nowhere in his standard multi-edition Physical Chemistry textbook does Atkins define the second law as the "tendency of energy to chaos" or "all change is driven by purposeless decay" or chemical reactions occur by "purposeless spreading of matter and energy in ever greater disorder", yet when he switches gears to do battle with the religious, he distorts and laymanizes thermodynamics into polemical garbage.
Atkins is certainly not alone in this unnamed "syndrome" many hardened godless scientists succumb to, but nevertheless is need of dose of hard core chemical thermodynamic reality. Shame on Atkins for selling out on the publisher dollar and on his own discipline.
As German human physical chemist Goethe lamented correctly over 200 years ago: "the moral symbols of natural science, and the humanities, are those of physical chemistry". Atkins would do well to take some tips. A recent example a real second law / physical chemistry based book would be American physical chemist Thomas Wallace's 2009 Wealth, Energy, And Human Values: The Dynamics Of Decaying Civilizations From Ancient Greece To America, with its appendix "The Fundamentals of Thermodynamics Applied to Socioeconomics". Atkins would be wise to pause for reflection before wasting anymore paper in another tailcoat book.
Garbage aside, Atkins wastes an entire chapter (1/5th of book) discussing how a dead body decomposes and cools (according to Newton's law of cooling) over the course of so many hours; and to top it all off: he gives an incorrect presentation of Egyptology, confusing the "ba" (soul) with the "ka" (spirit); and never even talks about "being" or "existence", which as we were led to believe would be the subject matter of the book?
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