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The God Delusion

By Richard Dawkins

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| Hardcover | 9780618680009

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From Publishers Weekly
The antireligion wars started by Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris will heat up even more with this salvo from celebrated Oxford biologist Dawkins. For a scientist who criticizes religion for its intolerance, Dawkins has written a surprisingly intolerant book, full of scorn forContinue

From Publishers Weekly
The antireligion wars started by Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris will heat up even more with this salvo from celebrated Oxford biologist Dawkins. For a scientist who criticizes religion for its intolerance, Dawkins has written a surprisingly intolerant book, full of scorn for religion and those who believe. But Dawkins, who gave us the selfish gene, anticipates this criticism. He says it's the scientist and humanist in him that makes him hostile to religions?fundamentalist Christianity and Islam come in for the most opprobrium?that close people's minds to scientific truth, oppress women and abuse children psychologically with the notion of eternal damnation. While Dawkins can be witty, even confirmed atheists who agree with his advocacy of science and vigorous rationalism may have trouble stomaching some of the rhetoric: the biblical Yahweh is "psychotic," Aquinas's proofs of God's existence are "fatuous" and religion generally is "nonsense." The most effective chapters are those in which Dawkins calms down, for instance, drawing on evolution to disprove the ideas behind intelligent design. In other chapters, he attempts to construct a scientific scaffolding for atheism, such as using evolution again to rebut the notion that without God there can be no morality. He insists that religion is a divisive and oppressive force, but he is less convincing in arguing that the world would be better and more peaceful without it. (Oct. 18)
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[해외주문원서] 고객님의 요청으로 수입 주문하는 도서이므로, 주문취소 및 반품이 불가합니다.
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Critics

  • Judgment day

    The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 416pp, Bantam, £20 In September 1997 Richard Dawkins allowed an Australian film crew into his Oxford home, only to realise in the course of a particularly inept interview that they were creationists trying to trap ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Beyond Belief

    Richard Dawkins, who holds the interesting title of “Charles Simonyi professor of the public understanding of science” at Oxford University, is a master of scientific exposition and synthesis. When it comes to his own specialty, evolutionary biology, ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • 9 people find this helpful

    An atheist criticizing Christianity (esp. Catholic)from a Darwanian point of view. Some of the arguements, like the parts about babies being baptized, the terrorists' unquestioning faith and the misuse of power by the church in the past, are sound. However, being too eager to defend his view, Dawkin ... (continue)

    An atheist criticizing Christianity (esp. Catholic)from a Darwanian point of view. Some of the arguements, like the parts about babies being baptized, the terrorists' unquestioning faith and the misuse of power by the church in the past, are sound. However, being too eager to defend his view, Dawkins sometimes presents points and arguements that are as unconvincing as those presented by the church when it comes to inconsistency and contraditions within the bible.

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    Oldwave said on Jul 30, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • 3 people find this helpful

    Well written and very highly recommended. However, I don't think that the Boeing argument is even necessary and that Dawkins plays it up a bit much. The pure absurdity of theology, the absolute lack of evidence, and the fact that when confronted by a similarly insane belief in another culture we wou ... (continue)

    Well written and very highly recommended. However, I don't think that the Boeing argument is even necessary and that Dawkins plays it up a bit much. The pure absurdity of theology, the absolute lack of evidence, and the fact that when confronted by a similarly insane belief in another culture we would rule it out (e.g. cargo cults) is more than enough.

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    Joey Doll said on Oct 20, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • 3 people find this helpful

    illuminating and stimulating! Even though Dawkins seems to turn atheism into a new religion...
    Yet he is one of the brightest authors I've ever read...

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    davd said on Aug 19, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Is God a Delusion?

    Not to me.
    At the age of 10 I decided that God does not exist. Since then, I have encountered no evidence of its existence, and discarded the question as irrelevant to me. Never illuded, never deluded.

    Richard Dawkings thinks differently about it. For him, the existence of a super-natural God is hi ... (continue)

    Not to me.
    At the age of 10 I decided that God does not exist. Since then, I have encountered no evidence of its existence, and discarded the question as irrelevant to me. Never illuded, never deluded.

    Richard Dawkings thinks differently about it. For him, the existence of a super-natural God is highly improbable, and in his The God Delusion, he explains why. First he comfutes all the major arguments which have been used by theologician to demonstrate God's existence, one by one, in a hilarious spiral. Later in the book, it becomes more clear what is he fighting against, and that is religion - i.e. the system of beliefs based on beliefs.
    The book is well written and enjoyable. The thesis are rigorous and compelling. A good book. It could help a lot of people, especially in these highly religious times.

    There are some minor remarks - but those are for the scholars. For instance, I cannot understand and appreciate the anthropofic vision or assumption. Moreover, I hate the lack of phantasy of people imagining extra-terrestrial life. Life is a process whose output is highly impredictable, so I would guess that extra-terrestrial life would look as shocking different to us, as australia's wildlife looked to the first occidental sailors.

    Finally, a godless life is a sinless one! Can you imagine what kind of impact that would have on your sexual life?

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    Peppuzzo said on Jan 15, 2010 | Add your feedback

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