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The God Delusion

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The God Delusion

by RICHARD DAWKINS

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | September 21, 2010 | Hardcover

A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.
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    Rating: 3/5

    Worth Thinking About Carefully

    Noah Leon

    3 days ago

    I read the book from start to finish. I felt belittled and bludgeoned for not being convinced by his way of thinking.

    That really is the strength of this book: that it makes people feel stupid for disagreeing with Dawkins. The actual science in this book is weak, it is basically a "rant" to quote Trent's review below.

    If you need proof of this, consider that his main argument, the Ultimate 747, is actually not that convincing IMHO. Go read it again, and just imagine ways you can poke holes in his argument, it's not too hard.

    I'm not saying this because I'm a religious nut, just because I want people to be aware of what Dawkins is doing. Don't be bullied by this book, read it a little more carefully.

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    Samantha Campbell

    Rating: 5/5

    Dawkins is a very talented writer

    Samantha Campbell

    2 weeks ago

    He's good at explaining things in terms that both a layperson and an expert would understand. You don't need to be a philosopher or a theologist to be able to understand this book.

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    Rating: 5/5

    I love arguments that are real and Dawkins's points are real and necessary.

    gerard Gauthier

    2 months ago

    Great book, engaging, a live entity forcing you to think for yourself.

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    Rating: 1/5

    For those who don't want to think

    Donald

    3 years ago

    Already an athiest and just want something you can bob your head up and down to without thinking? Perfect book for you! Richard should be embarrassed. His use of statistics would make a high school student cringe. For every odd theology thought of that past that he ridicules, there are 10 x that number from the past scientists. He only pokes at the 'right', 'conservative' version of Christianity (think Televangelists), and uses this as a steriotype, despite his initial comment about talking about all religions. I believe this book was solely written for those who only want to read what they want to hear, and for him to make big $. Judging from most of the other reviews, he has succeeded. Richard could not possibly be a Mensa.

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    Itseasy ifyoutry

    For every new generation there are many different myths and those who preach them as truth. Unfortunately there is only one truth, and I'm sorry if it bores you and it seems redundant or ripped off, but somebody will always have to stand up for reality. If not this incredibly distinguished scientist and likely the worlds most prominent living atheist then who might you suggest undertake this obligation to logic, sanity, humanity, and peace?

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A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.

About the Author

Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestors Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devils Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.

Hardcover

416 Pages, 6.25 x 9.25 x 1 in

September 21, 2010

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

English


0618680004
9780618680009

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Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions while evading the most difficult implications-the existence of a prime mover sophisticated enough to create and run the universe, "to say nothing of mind reading millions of humans simultaneously." Such an entity, he argues, would have to be extremely complex, raising the question of how it came into existence, how it communicates -through spiritons!-and where it resides. Dawkins is frequently dismissed as a bully, but he is only putting theological doctrines to the same kind of scrutiny that any scientific theory must withstand. No one who has witnessed the merciless dissection of a new paper in physics would describe the atmosphere as overly polite. 

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