The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
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Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins “Darwin’s Rottweiler” for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
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.
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This post has 20 comments with rating of 5/5
May 25th, 2021
Please upload Noise by Daniel Kahneman
May 25th, 2021
It’s quite amazing that anyone still gives this book any credibility whatsoever, considering that Dawkins’ theories and the entire thesis of this book have been debunked and shown to be utterly absurd.
But it seems, regardless of the evidence to the contrary, most people’s lives are driven by some fierce, inner politic of bias confirmation, even though Dawkins has been made an utter fool of by the very science he worships.
May 25th, 2021
@Brillo, amazingly I just gave exactly the same comment to the bible! I just swapped ‘Dawkins’ with ‘the bible’.
May 25th, 2021
My favorite quote from The God Delusion:
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
May 25th, 2021
@Brillo, our precious @Brillo, could you give us a reliable source, where this was “[…] debunked and shown to be utterly absurd”?
Please? Pretty please?
May 25th, 2021
“Rottweiler” maybe, but certainly not Darwin’s! Darwin, for all his intellectual daring and interpretations of facts, and for all the challenge he proffered to the religious outlook of his contemporaries, did not directly challenge their common-sense image of natural law, which was that of a statute set up by God and obeyed by nature.
May 25th, 2021
First off, @msands, I would like to thank you for presenting me with the opportunity to fill part of a day off with some entertainment. So I will take my time and enjoy it. :-)
Secondly, it seems evident that you only make your request in the confidence that I won’t respond according to your “pretty please.” And in that you would be correct. Why should I indulge your intellectual laziness by providing for you the research I’ve done, if you’re not willing to do it yourself? And of course, you aren’t and will not, because I suspect you are not as open-minded as you would like us to believe?
I was a medical research scientist who ran a laboratory at a university in southern Cal. and co-authored articles in scientific journals. Also, I was a firm believer in evolution for a good portion of my life, so I well know the scientific methodologies involved in studying both sides of an issue. Do you?
You can begin to confront your fears and mental indolence and begin your own quest by reading orpilot’s above quote from Dawkins, and honestly (if you are capable of that) asking the question: Why would someone invest such emotional energy into writing a book which tries so hard to prove that something doesn’t exist? He’s like most atheists whose desperate existence is totally predicated on that thesis — proving the negative.
What drives that, @msands? Their deep compassion for saving people from a delusion? Are they being charitable, in a biblical or any other sense, because they just love their readers? Or are they creating for themselves an artificial solace by reflecting their own beliefs onto others? That’s a very common emotional shelter, you know; if you can convince others of something that you really want to be certain of yourself, it helps you disbelieve the opposite — the one you are terrified may actually be true.
And yes, your internal (and perhaps, external) response will be: yeah, that’s just a convenient way to dodge your question. Yep, it sure is, because your request is predicated on the idea that I won’t load this comment section with — what? Library references? Endless citations proving what poor Mr. Dawkins is a sad, deluded old man? You knew that would not happen, didn’t you, @msands? You were actually right about something!
Thanks again, I’ve rather enjoyed taking a few minutes to bang out my thoughts in a keyboard. Now . . . back my cozy, insular little eidolon.
May 25th, 2021
@Brillo
Regardless of you trying to cover yourself for not actually responding with anything to back up your outlandish claim, you still come out looking like a fool for dodging his question. You asserted something, but shy away from backing it up when confronted. You can’t seriously have expected someone to enter into a serious discussion with you, when you start off making weird claims like you did.
You do you, though. Whatever makes you happy.
May 25th, 2021
Christian fundamentalists love to talk in circles of circular reasoning: Dawkings is wrong because the Bible says so. How is it fact? Because God says so. That’s no logic.
What exactly does the Bible say, other than the fact it was written by different people, shaped by institutions as a form of control. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, and believing in an end-times psychology that takes you nowhere.
May 26th, 2021
@checkers333
Dawkins (not Dawkings) - although he might actually like this - is not wrong or right but simply spurious, in other words, his line of reasoning is apparently but not actually valid. If confused, suggest you look up the etymology of spurious.
May 26th, 2021
@Brillo, again, how were Dawkins theories and the entire thesis debunked? By dodging simple questions? By producing multiple lines of text with little meaning?
Also: thanks for a laugh, people like you are funny, even when they try hard not to be.
May 27th, 2021
:D Who is more DELUDED than a public intellectual who strenously ignores the principles of engineering design and information science because he dislikes their theistic implications?
May 27th, 2021
The universe was verifiably designed, and designs only arise from designing minds.
Dawkins is an intellectual coward for not admitting as much, but … it’s his choice and his exercise of free will.
May 27th, 2021
@chrisxiii
You mention that “The universe was verifiably designed.”
Please could you elaborate or confirm how this has been verified?
May 31st, 2021
@brillo - So you were a research scientist - was that before or after you commanded the mission to Mars?
July 6th, 2021
you can always count on rabid atheists to be the first to praise and defend dawkin’s work. that’s exactly what he wants you to do.
July 24th, 2021
My friends, to each, their own. You can say you believe in science, you can say you believe in religion, no problem. I don’t understand why people that don’t want to read this book, feel the need to offer their comments, but it is their opinion. Someone says they were scientists, no problem. Maybe they were astronauts and looked at the flat earth from the heavens. Maybe they were super healthy and didn’t need to vaccinate because 5G and Bill Gates will put a chip in them. Maybe, just maybe, they decided they should have a big say in how other people live and manage their lives and bodies. You see that is what religion does to people, as if the simple action of believing in fairytales makes you any better than a delusional ridiculous person that should not be offering opinions for anything more complicated than drinking water. I don’t know if a supernatural being exists (though i sincerely doubt it) but the gods people build for themselves are universally unpleasant (which speaks volumes for the people that made them as well as the people that worship them). You believers, if it is punishment you want, there are specialists that can do it for you. And if there is something wrong with books like Dawkins’, it is that they don’t go far enough. People were mad for the first sentence of chapter 2… that should be the baseline! Oh, and if anyone wants an alternative take on similar subjects (more humorous but with an equally sharp undercurrent, though the ending is a bit too happy to align with our reality..), take a peak at Terry Prachett’s Small Gods. Fantastic Book, i make sure to gift to all of my friends (some don’t stay my friends after reading it)!
September 12th, 2021
hah more like the gay delusion
checkmate atheists
January 8th, 2022
@mm111 at least we won’t get killed if we didn’t. which is better than those Abrahamic religions.
@brillo I was really looking forward to your answer but all you said was “I’m research scientist, are you? Why should I give you my research? You might be too dumb to read it! I won’t waste time on you!” Which is a shame because you came off defensive. You were given the podium to speak your mind but you didn’t take it. It comes off as highly pompous. You said no facts, didn’t even cite any papers, only said they exist. You don’t really want to educate and share ideas, you only want to showboat. Perhaps Dawkins might be erroneous like you said, but he at least, communicates what he thinks.
What drives Dawkins, you ask? He has made it clear numerous times. He is against child indoctrination of religious dogma. He wants science and logic to have a higher priority than religion. He is against politics being muddled by religion. These are all reasonable causes to write a book about and fight for.
November 1st, 2025
good book
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