The War for Reality: A Scientific Examination of Faith, Reason, and the Human Mind, Volume II
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 19 2025
Pages: 642
Weight: 2.42
Height: 1.29 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
In Volume II of The War for Reality, Dr. Robbie King takes the reader into the most challenging, controversial, and intellectually demanding battlegrounds of the science-religion conflict. While Volume I established the historical and psychological foundations of humanity's struggle between faith and reason, Volume II delivers the deep, rigorous, and uncompromising analysis that defines the core disputes of the modern age.
Across three monumental essays-each a self-contained masterwork-Dr. King examines the pillars upon which religious doctrine has long stood, and how modern science has reshaped, undermined, or outright dismantled them.
Chapter 7, Evolution Destroying Dogma, explores the centuries-long clash between religious doctrine and the reality of natural selection. With extraordinary depth and scholarly precision, Dr. King traces how Darwinian evolution dismantles literalist interpretations of creation, challenges millennia-old doctrines, and reveals the profound scientific mechanisms driving life across billions of years.
Chapter 8, Against the Common Arguments for God, is a comprehensive, systematic refutation of the classic philosophical and theological arguments for the existence of God. From the cosmological to the teleological, from fine-tuning to morality, Dr. King engages each argument analytically and scientifically-exposing logical fallacies, evidentiary gaps, and where religious reasoning collapses under empirical scrutiny.
Chapter 9, Miracles vs. Natural Laws, confronts one of religion's most enduring claims: the supernatural. Drawing on physics, cosmology, neuroscience, probability theory, and the philosophy of science, Dr. King evaluates miracle claims from antiquity to the modern era. He reveals why purported miracles contradict the fundamental structure of natural law, examines the psychology behind extraordinary claims, and demonstrates why miracle events are neither supernatural nor compatible with the scientific understanding of reality.
With unflinching clarity, vast interdisciplinary knowledge, and the depth of a scholar who moves effortlessly across fields, Volume II expands the trilogy's scope into its most intellectually formidable terrain. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the full scientific challenge to traditional religious belief.
Whether you are a scientist, skeptic, student of philosophy, or someone searching for answers, Volume II offers a rare combination of analytical rigor and accessible insight-guiding readers through the hardest questions humanity has ever asked.
About the AuthorDr. Robbie King is a clinical psychologist, aeronautical engineer, historian, scientist, economist, value investor, music composer, singer, humorist, digital artist, photographer, linguist, theologian, social critic, film critic, former professional strongman, and multi-genre author of 109 published books. He has written across all ten categories of the Dewey Decimal System-the only author in history to do so-surpassing Isaac Asimov's nine. In 2024, he broke Barbara Cartland's world record for most books published in a single year. The youngest author ever to reach 100 published books, Dr. King is one of the most prolific authors in the world today.
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