by Piergiorgio Odifreddi · RBA Libros · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498671773
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In this book, mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi presents a critical analysis of the Scriptures and the history of the Church, comparing the vision of the biblical God with the intelligence of the universe according to figures such as Pythagoras, Spinoza, Plato, and Einstein. Odifreddi argues that Christianity has hindered the development of democratic and scientific thought in Europe, acting as a brake on moral and civic progress. Through a concise and suggestive critique, the author examines the logical inconsistencies and the lack of historical foundation in religious texts, defending the importance of reason and truth.
Piergiorgio Odifreddi is an Italian mathematician, logician, scholar of the history of science, and popular science writer and essayist, especially on philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. He is philosophically and politically near to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky.
