On the Shelf

Jim Holt (who's working on a book about the "puzzle of existence") reviews Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. In the new book, author and Temple University mathematician John Allen Paulos uses logic to try to refute arguments for the existence of God—yet ends up conceding that neither the arguments for or against God's existence can be logically proven or solved. —Heather Wax