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| The God Delusion | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $27.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1249 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6036
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0618680004
Dewey Decimal Number: 211.8
EAN: 9780618680009
ASIN: 0618680004
Publication Date: September 18, 2006
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Product Description
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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 Does anyone else think this is totally creepy!? August 27, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
To write a book about God not existing is completely morbid and sad in a way I can't describe. The pics above also are sad. That people actively try to discredit God blows my mind. What is the point? To try to take away people's hope? God is hope and love. Without God everything is completely meaningless. Might as well kill yourself now cause there's no point in living if you believe this stuff. God is real people, open your eyes and look around you.
SERIOUS WASTE OF TIME August 27, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
All you need to know is: Richard Dawkins knows everything thats possible to know, he dismisses the idea of God, and you better do it, too if you know whats good for you. He especially dislikes the Judeo-Christian God, and walks meekly around the Muslims; they likely wont turn the other cheek to him.
When you know it all, there's nothing else to discover. When youre a famous scientist like Richard Dawkins you know and can dismiss every permutation and combination of ways God might occur. You certainly know why there is something rather than nothing in our universe.
Repent now, the end time is nearer than you think!! August 27, 2008
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is full of lies from the devil himself. The only truth is in the bible. The bible is 1/3 prophecy from God. Read it for yourself. The only way to eternal life in heaven is through Jesus Christ the son of God, who died to save us from eternal death in hell. Repent now, we are living in the end times.
Lost cause August 27, 2008
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by its Creator into a few forms or into one;..."
These are the closing lines in a Mentor, paper-back edition of the 'Origin of Species' published in 1958 that I own. Do I have a 'doctored' copy or did Richard Dawkins skip the 'Creator' part on purpose while quoting it?
I was astonished by the brilliance of the 'Selfish Gene'. That book was razor sharp in its theories and far-reaching in its conclusions. No matter how much you think, no matter how angry and frustrated you feel, you cannot find fault with its conclusions. The Selfish Gene was fantastic. This book was garbage. I do not say this because I am a religious person - in fact I am very minimally religious, who just believes that there are questions about this universe that cannot be answered. In fact, in the 'Selfish Gene' Dawkins himself says (don't have the book with me for the exact quote) that ' originally there were simple molecules, that aggregated for survival. Somewhere along the line consciousness developed. How it developed and what exactly it (consciousness) is, is beyond the scope of this book and does not affect the theories of the selfish gene'. This was a perfect disclaimer which, in fact, made me respect him. This book plunges into areas that no one has answers to.
Religion, to begin with, is ambiguous. What exactly is it? Is it what the originator uttered, or is it something that followers believe in? If theoretically there were no religions (not practical, given the human paradox of where the selfish gene wants to survive and the mind questions the futility of it because of its own inevitable end), would that solve most of the world's problems? Wouldn't politicians and people simply find other reasons to divide and dislike? What about racial discrimination? That doesn't seem to be religiously motivated.
This book in my opinion was a lost cause from page one. Whatever happened to this brilliant man and why he ever embarked on this book is beyond me.
Looking forward to Dawkins' next book August 26, 2008
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
I hope that, in his next book, Dawkins takes on Islam with the same fervor that he uses to attack Christianity. We ought to see some action then, eh!
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