Man Made God

By Ferry, Luc
University of Chicago, 2001, Paperback, ISBN: 0226244857, $14.95

The subject of Ferry's book is ultimately how to go about living a fulfilling life in the absence of a god.

God's "existence" is not the issue: there is no god. Rather, Ferry explores alternatives to the divine centric view of the cosmos and toward the emergence of a genuinely humanistic society. The tension between religion and modern science is at stake, as is the hypocrisy and intellectual bad faith of those religious people who live completely secular lives while benefiting from a scientific paradigm that has no room for a deity.