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  • Gunning for God

  • Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target
  • By: John Lennox
  • Narrated by: William Crockett
  • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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Gunning for God

By: John Lennox
Narrated by: William Crockett
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Summary

Atheism is on the march in the western world, and its enemy is God. 

Religion, the "New Atheists" claim, is "dangerous", "kills", or "poisons" everything. And if religion is the problem with the world, their answer is simple: Get rid of it. But are things really so straightforward? 

Tackling the likes of Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett head on, John Lennox highlights the fallacies in the their approach, arguing that their irrational and unscientific methodology leaves them guilty of the same obstinate foolishness of which they accuse dogmatic religious folks.

Erudite and wide-ranging, Gunning for God packs some debilitating punches. It also puts forward new ideas about the nature of God and Christianity that will give the New Atheists' best friends and worst enemies alike some stimulating food for thought.

©2011 John Lennox (P)2018 Lion Books

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  • 17-04-20

Great content, terrible narration

This is like having a book read to you by the Siri voice on your phone. I managed to complete the book and did get used to the voice to a degree, but a great deal is lost due to the monotony and odd syllable emphasis of the narrator.

The content was genuinely great and as a bit of a 'doubting thomas' Christian I enjoyed the content of the book greatly, discussing in an intelligent and honest manner some of the challenging questions that the 'new atheists' have raised. I imagine I would have enjoyed it more in paper.

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Book - Excellent, Narration - Issues

This book is excellent, so good that I think it's still worth listening to, despite the narration issues. However, it really needs re-recording. The narrator is easy to listen to, but word pronunciation is sometimes wrong, especially with people's names. In other places, it was frustrating that words were mis-read. In one section, "causal relationship" was mis-read as "casual relationship" multiple times! Regarding the book itself, John Lennox is fantastic and so is this book, I'd say it's unmissable for anyone interested in this topic.

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Excellent book

very good, so much interesting information. very balanced presetation and lots of evidence for the claims made.

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Maybe i had wrong expectations

I would describe this book as a collection of sermons. Although it contains many interesting reasonings against atheism, i was personally expecting and hoping for less theology/philosophy and more science.

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Deeper inside in apostology

I watched a lot of debates with Phd Lennox to came to this book.. All his insights as a phylosfers and mathematician gave me great insights in the christian God and religion. A great counter piece to Richard Dawkin's The god delussion. Lots of acceptable answers to life questions.

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Atheists and Believers alike need to read this book

Dr Lennox is a great expositor using evidenced information to demonstrate his arguments. I will be sharing with friends and family to promote discussions and enlightenment.

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  • Kathleen Thompson
  • 11-07-19

Disconnected by the narrator

I love Lennox and am a huge fan of his books. However, the excellent and important content of this book for me was completely ruined by the narrator. The warm, intimate and humorous personality of John Lennox is so much a part of absorbing his astounding knowledge and making it possible for even non-scientist to not be intimidated by the content. I am not saying Mr. Crockett needs to imitate John but his lack of melody, vocal inflections and general vocal tone of familiarity is like listening to someone read some other person's scientific and philosophical report.....very boring and neurologically anesthetizing.
If you can persevere with Crockett narration John's content is powerful, as always.

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  • William J. Cook
  • 29-03-19

Narrator struggles

It is unfortunate that such a good book is diminished by poor narration skills. The narrator often mispronounces words. He also reads as if he is in a confined space and is unnaturally speaking as if trying not to let people overhear his conversation. I can’t bear to listen long enough to finish the book.

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  • Morris E. Wray
  • 15-02-20

poor narrator

love anything Lennox
man I'm struggling with this narrator.
he may work for someone else.
dry voice quality.

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  • Mike Clark
  • 01-07-19

An excellent book -- mediocrely read

The book's content is excellent. It provides plenty of "ammunition" to defend against the "New Atheism", and I got a lot of it. I will be reading this book over and over again -- studying it, in fact -- in order to become adept at this "ammunition".

However, the narrator is just OK. His fluency is fine, but his tone tends to the monotonous. Also, his mispronunciation of words is frequently jarring and distracting. But don't let the narrator's follies dissuade you from this book. It's a great read, whether in print or Audible!

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  • werner kasselman™
  • 05-12-18

Pronunciation of Y

Great book, good performance except for annoying and frustrating pronunciation of words ending in y...

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  • R. Hazen
  • 01-03-23

Very enjoyable defense of the faith

I enjoyed this book quite a lot. It is largely a response to R. Dawkin’s “The God Delusion”. It picks Dawkin’s position apart handily, showing Dawkin’s many fallacies and bad suppositions.

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  • Nancy
  • 26-08-22

Great book!

As usual, Dr. Lennox does complete job of covering this material so well and with his usual clear insight and humor...at first I wasn't sure if I liked the narration but it won me over the more I listened.

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  • C. Bravo
  • 16-08-22

Terrible narrator

The amazing contents of this book are thoroughly stunted by the boring, monotone narration. Disappointing.

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  • Alex
  • 12-08-22

Excellent!

Dr. Lennox brilliantly maneuvers through each point of attack lobbed from the new atheists, in order to bring us to a logical and true conclusion. We'll done!

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  • Isaias Ortiz
  • 30-03-21

Factual and Inspiring!

First book I’ve ever read by John Lennox..... first of many! Amazing, beautiful encouraging faith!