Apologetics: I don't have enough faith to be an atheist by Geisler & Turek

Today I'm adding 'I don't have enough faith to be an atheist' by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek (Available from Amazon) to the Master Reading List under the category of Apologetics.

Apologetics is a defence of the Christian faith - usually against atheistic arguments.  And the need for apologetics has never been greater.  Atheism is gaining more prominence all the time with popular atheist authors (e.g. Dawkins, Hitchins, Harris) and the secular press regularly attacking Christianity.  But thankfully there is no shortage of apologetic titles available to Christians who wish to articulate the rationality of their beliefs.  And I think one of the best apologetic books has to be 'I don't have enough faith to be an atheist'.

The first two chapters of the book are basically an attack on post-modernism's denial that truth exists.  This denial of truth is quickly dispensed with by authors' 'road runner tactic': 'no truth claims' are themselves 'truth claims' and thus logically self-defeating.

Then once it is established that truth exists, the authors examine the logical 'proofs' for the existence of God:
(i) the cosmological argument;
(ii) the teleological argument (here a critique of Darwinism is included);
(iii) the moral argument.

And now that a good case for the existence of God has been made, miracles are obviously possible and would confirm a message from God.  The authors then posit that God has indeed spoken, and it is through the historically reliable New Testament.  The rest of the book then examines whether the truth claims of Christianity are logically sound.

The book is long and may be intimidating to some, but is actually easy to read.  And I believe its solid structure is what holds the book nicely together and sets it apart from other apologetic books.  The gradual move from establishing that there is truth to establishing that there is a God and that this God has revealed himself in the Bible, allows you to witness a slow crumbling of the foundations of all other world-views.

If you are a Christian, this book will give you assurance that you are following the most rational world-view - that is, if you leave Christianity you will need more faith because there is less evidence for any other world-view.  And if you're not a Christian, this book should at the very least give you significant food for thought.