A tough test of the intellectual mettle of the armchair atheists and those teetering between faith and committing to life without it.*Boston Globe*We cant avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of lifeand the nature of reality. But science is the only means of answering them. So declares philosopher Alex Rosenberg in this bracing, surprisingly sanguine take on a world without god. The science that makes us nonbelievers, he demonstrates, tells us the nature of reality, the purpose of everything, the difference between right and wrong, how the mind works, even the direction of human history. 8 illustrationsReviewThis eccentric, funny treatise on "scientism,"...takes a perverse delight in "nice nihilism." Rosenberg doesn't believe in free will, morality, or secular humanism, and apparently you shouldn't either, dummy...this dismemberment of mainstream worldviews abounds with clever barbs and dry one-liners. (Village Voice)...The Atheists Guideis the work of a well-informed and imaginative philosopher. (Philip Kitcher - *New York Times Book Review* )I enjoyedThe Atheist's Guide to Reality. Full of daring moves, it takes the sin of scientism as the ultimate virtue. Alex Rosenberg has sheared the nature of things down to the bedrock, and exposed our common vanity. (E. O. Wilson *The Ants* )The Atheists Guide to Realitywill, like the best scholarship and science, remove you from your comfort zone. And that is the only way to gain new and better perspectives on our place in the cosmos. (Lawrence Krauss *A Universe From Nothing* )For those of us who have pondered what David Hume might have said, were he to have had the benefit of all the scientific knowledge that succeeded his death, Alex Rosenbergs wonderful new book perfectly satisfies. (Rebecca Goldstein *36 Arguments for the Existence of God* )About the AuthorAlex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Duke University and the codirector of the Duke Center for Philosophy of Biology. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.