Bryan Caplan finished his blog post today with this fortune cookie,
Every atheist should read the Bible cover to cover - and every critic of economics should read Mankiw cover to cover.
Are these two examples really the same?
The bible is popular, but it isn’t the best case for theism. The bible doesn’t even try to prove God, it assumes him, “in the beginning God created…” Greg Mankiw’s textbook is one articulation of the best case for economic principles, but it isn’t popular.
So if atheists should read the bible cover to cover, then every critic of economics should watch Bill O Reilly from beginning to end.
And if every economics textbook should read Mankiw cover to cover, then every atheist might want to read Augustine, Aquinas, Plantinga, or Owen Anderson’s book The Clarity of God’s Existence.
