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About the Author:
Richard Dawkins‘ most recent book brings up the issue of style over substance. As in his notable books The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and River Out of Eden, the eminent transformative scholar has gotten his work done and contends with accuracy and a reasonable coating of mind. In any case, Dawkins can’t limit his hostility for those that have placed their confidence in religion, to the point that he puts on a show of being frenzied as those adherents whose eyes he longs to open. This deadly defect thumps his book down a bar or two for pundits, a large number of whom appear to be slanted to have faith in Dawkins, if just he weren’t so long-winded.
Introduction:
It is intended to raise consciousness – raise consciousness to the fact that being an atheist is a realistic aspiration and a brave and splendid one. You can be an atheist who is happy, balanced, moral, and intellectually fulfilled. That is the first of my consciousness-raising messages. I also want to raise consciousness in three other ways, which I’ll come on to. In January 2006 I presented a two-part television documentary on British television (Channel Four) called Root of All Evil? From the start, I didn’t like the title. Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything. But I was delighted with the advertisement that Channel Four put in the national newspapers.
It was a picture of the Manhattan skyline with the caption ‘Imagine a world without religion.’ What was the connection? The twin towers of the World Trade Center were conspicuously present. However, Imagine, with John Lennon, a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, no Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres, no persecution of Jews as ‘Christ-killers’, no Northern Ireland ‘troubles’, no ‘honor killings’, no shiny-suited bouffant-haired televangelists fleecing gullible people of their money (‘God wants you to give till it hurts’).
Inside this book:
If you think that, you might enjoy Chapter 3 on ‘Arguments for God’s existence’ – the arguments turn out to be spectacularly weak. Maybe you think it is obvious that God must exist, for how else could the world have come into being? If your thoughts run along those lines, I hope you will gain enlightenment from Chapter 4 on ‘Why there almost certainly is no God’.
Far from pointing to a designer, the illusion of design in the living world is explained with a far greater economy and with devastating elegance by Darwinian natural selection. And, while natural selection itself is limited to explaining the living world, it raises our consciousness to the likelihood of comparable explanatory ‘cranes’ that may aid our understanding of the cosmos itself. The power of cranes such as natural selection is the second of my four consciousness-raisers.
Imagine no Taliban to blow up ancient statues, no public beheadings of blasphemers, no flogging of female skin for the crime of showing an inch of it. One version even has the effrontery to change it to ‘and one religion too’. Perhaps you feel that agnosticism is a reasonable position, but that atheism is just as dogmatic as religious belief? If so, I hope Chapter 2 will change your mind, by persuading you that ‘the God Hypothesis’ is a scientific hypothesis about the universe, which should be analyzed as skeptically as any other. Perhaps you have been taught that philosophers and theologians have put forward good reasons to believe in God.
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- Book Name:Â The God Delusion
- Author: Richard Dawkins
- Language:Â English
- Status:Â Available
- Number of Pages:Â 396 Pages
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