Open Library- Publication date
- 2006
- Topics
- Atheism,Religion,Irréligion,Athéisme,Dieu,Religion,Atheïsme,Religiekritiek,Areligiosität,Atheismus,Gotteslehre,Religion
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.
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- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 443.6M
Includes bibliographical references (p. [380]-399) and index
A preeminent scientist asserts the irrationallity of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society from the Crusades to 9/11. He critiques 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. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design," or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East--or Middle America.--From publisher description
A preeminent scientist asserts the irrationallity of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society from the Crusades to 9/11. He critiques 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. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design," or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East--or Middle America.--From publisher description
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Reviewer:PetrusW -favorite - April 19, 2020
Subject: Unconvincing
Subject: Unconvincing
The author goes to great lengths to convince the reader that Religion is just an evolutionary by product doubling over backwards to try and fit it into ... his idea of Darwinian evolution. To have a viable religion one has to have a creation story and evolution is that to atheists. The author is just trying to discredit all other religions to push his own using quasi scientific evidence.
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