The Scientific Deception of the New Atheists

Aimed at the popular works of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and their contemporaries, this book argues that the New Atheist movement stretches scientific findings into philosophical claims they cannot support. Hijab examines appeals to evolution, cosmology, and neuroscience in atheist writing and contends that the underlying questions, from the origin of the universe to the basis of morality, remain philosophical rather than empirical. The book is a polemic, but one built around specific quotations and arguments from the authors it targets.