Exploring the Paradox: Examining Atheism and the Need for a Higher Power to Make Their Argument

Kristine McDonald: I have heard this all before. I like watching Turek when he’s asked questions on you tube cross examined. But the book didn’t keep my interest. It took me a while to read. I’m almost done. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good either. I’m giving it to my pastor when I’m done. I don’t need it in my library because I will never read it again.

Canada on Nov 22, 2023

Lisa: Really well thought out arguments. A great tool to help any Christians discuss or answers questions about their faith. Highly recommend it.

Canada on Nov 14, 2023

gayle: This book makes you stop and think even if you have been a Christian for a long time or I just beginning to ask about the meaning of life. There are answers to some very challenging questions, clear and not hard to understand. The examples given are appropriate and memorable. The ideas are not too complex for the average person to understand but challenging enough for a deep thinker to also need to look inside themselves and face their honest answers

Australia on Oct 16, 2023

Kunde 88: Great book!
Though tough content, Turek's way of writing is so easy and fun to read!
I've seen him in debates on youtube, and am impressed by his gracious, respectful way of dealing with people who are of different opinion.
In this book, he puts things up so clearly, and besides so many good and true points he mentions a few facts in natures we can just marvel at.
Christian and Non-Christian readers are challenged alike!
God bless you, Frank!

Germany on Aug 22, 2023

sarieke bok: Nice book, that makes you dive deeper in the truth that atheism can't be true, because in order to make its case, an atheist needs to make use of the law of causality, reason, intelligence, morality and science, all of which don't make sense if materialism is true, because then we would be just dancing to our DNA, molecules in motion, meat machines, not ever being able to know anything for sure, let alone to decide when something is evil or not.

Warning: if you're an atheist, you might be offended by the fact that sometimes Turek writes about you (and your atheistic faith) in a derogatory head shaking manner, which I find highly inappropriate.

Netherlands on Jun 26, 2022

jtbuster: Frank demonstrates how atheists can 'know' what is right and wrong, but cannot justify their right/wrong beliefs without the existence of God.
Otherwise, the Holocaust could not be said to be category 'good' or 'bad', but just 'different'.
Without God, all morality is subjective.
Yes, if God exists, then He has the ultimate authority.
Turek does not go into all the details for the Christian God; he appeals to theism, which is a step in the right direction, but does not go all the way.
I understand Turek's appeal to use rational thinking to describe how we cannot justify truth without God, but to go further into one's journey, I would also suggest someone read
"Cold Case Christianity".
Frank's stong area is philosophy, so he seems to purposely not dip his feet too far into biology, cosmology, or other fields of apologetics, which I can understand.
There are lots of Christian apologetic books that touch on the various areas of apologetics, but Turek's is the best I have found so far on philosophy.
Folks who have debated Turek seem to often use emotionally charged rhetoric which has logical rebuttals, but cannot be rebutted in the short period of time that...

United States on Mar 29, 2022

Daniel N. LionsdenDaniel N. Lionsden: Dr. Frank Turek’s Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case is a powerful exposé of the fallacies atheists use to prove God doesn’t exist. To argue against God, Turek says that atheists are using aspects of reality that wouldn’t exist if atheism were true, i.e., if God didn’t exist.

The first chapter is “Causality,” which is available free at his CrossExamined website. It begins with the cosmological argument:
1. Everything that has a beginning has a cause.
2. The universe had a beginning.
3. Therefore, the universe had a cause.

In chapter one, Turek demolishes physicist Lawrence Krauss’ book A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing. The “nothing” Krauss uses to explain where the universe came from is made up of quantum fluctuations, which are something, so Krauss misleads the reader. He says ‘nothing’ became unstable and produced everything!

Atheists are materialists who believe everything consists of interconvertible matter and energy. In order to prove atheism is true, atheists have to steal from the nature of God in order to argue against Him. Turek uses the acrostic C.R.I.M.E.S....

United States on Apr 21, 2016