Prefaced with lines from Spinoza and Shelley on superstition, this freethinking treatise argues that the idea of God is a human creation. Hartmann sets out the universe, the earth, the sun and the chemistry of life as science described them, then turns to the creation story and the Garden of Eden in Genesis to question their authority.
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