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The God delusion / Richard Dawkins.

Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780618918249 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 0618918248 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 463 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
  • Publisher: Boston [Mass.] : Mariner Books, 2008, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Mariner book".
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-435) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A deeply religious non-believer -- The God hypothesis -- Arguments for God's existence -- Why there almost certainly is no God -- The roots of religion -- The roots of morality : why are we good? -- The "good" book and the changing moral zeitgeist -- What's wrong with religion : why be so hostile? -- Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion -- A much needed gap? -- Appendix : a partial list of friendly addresses, for individuals needing support in escaping from religion.

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Subject: Atheism.
Religion.
Irreligion.
God.

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Preface to the paperback edition 13(10)
Preface 23(8)
A Deeply Religious Non-Believer
31(20)
Deserved respect
31(10)
Undeserved respect
41(10)
The God Hypothesis
51(49)
Polytheism
52(6)
Monotheism
58(2)
Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America
60(9)
The poverty of agnosticism
69(8)
NOMA
77(8)
The Great Prayer Experiment
85(5)
The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists
90(4)
Little green men
94(6)
Arguments for God's Existence
100(37)
Thomas Aquinas' `proofs'
100(3)
The ontological argument and other a priori arguments
103(7)
The argument from beauty
110(2)
The argument from personal `experience'
112(5)
The argument from scripture
117(6)
The argument from admired religious scientists
123(7)
Pascal's Wager
130(2)
Bayesian arguments
132(5)
Why There Almost Certainly is no God
137(53)
The Ultimate Boeing 747
137(2)
Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser
139(5)
Irreducible complexity
144(7)
The worship of gaps
151(11)
The anthropic principle: planetary version
162(7)
The anthropic principle: cosmological version
169(11)
An interlude at Cambridge
180(10)
The Roots of Religion
190(51)
The Darwinian imperative
190(4)
Direct advantages of religion
194(4)
Group selection
198(2)
Religion as a by-product of something else
200(8)
Psychologically primed for religion
208(14)
Tread softly, because you tread on my memes
222(12)
Cargo cults
234(7)
The Roots of Morality: Why are We Good?
241(27)
Does our moral sense have a Darwinian origin?
245(9)
A case study in the roots of morality
254(5)
If there is no God, why be good?
259(9)
The `Good' Book and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist
268(49)
The Old Testament
269(14)
Is the New Testament any better?
283(5)
Love thy neighbour
288(10)
The moral Zeitgeist
298(10)
What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren't they atheists?
308(9)
What's Wrong with Religion? Why be so Hostile?
317(32)
Fundamentalism and the subversion of science
319(4)
The dark side of absolutism
323(3)
Faith and homosexuality
326(3)
Faith and the sanctity of human life
329(8)
The Great Beethoven Fallacy
337(4)
How `moderation' in faith fosters fanaticism
341(8)
Childhood, Abuse and the Escape from Religion
349(39)
Physical and mental abuse
354(12)
In defence of children
366(6)
An educational scandal
372(7)
Consciousness-raising again
379(4)
Religious education as a part of literary culture
383(5)
A Much Needed Gap?
388(33)
Binker
389(5)
Consolation
394(10)
Inspiration
404(1)
The mother of all burkas
405(16)
Appendix: a partial list of friendly addresses, for individuals needing support in escaping from religion 421(6)
Books cited or recommended 427(9)
Notes 436(13)
Index 449

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