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The God Delusion

Written by: Richard Dawkins
Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
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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.

©2006 Richard Dawkins (P)2006 Tantor Media, Inc.

What the critics say

"Richard Dawkins is the leading soothsayer of our time....The God Delusion continues his thought-provoking tradition." (J. Craig Venter, decoder of the human genome)
"The God Delusion is smart, compassionate, and true....If this book doesn't change the world, we're all screwed." (Penn & Teller)
"The world needs...passionate rationalists....Richard Dawkins so stands out through the cutting intelligence of The God Delusion." (James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, author of The Double Helix)

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A must read

It’s my second book I’m listening from professor Dawkings, it’s very interesting from the beginning to the end, well put together and very interesting stories told by professors experience. I was religious person but I’m glad that my eyes are open now and I can see everything not like I used to.
Make sure you have a friend or someone that you can talk to after you Read/listen to this book because it’s hard to just let it go.

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Loved the content, but reading was a tad disjointe

Dawkins did a great job here! His many ways of explaining the very low probability of there being a God was spot on. However, I do not believe it will sway the religious, since he uses science to back up his arguments instead of speaking their own language. I still say it's a must-read.

Only downside to this audiobook is the constant back and forth between the two narrators. It takes a while to get used to and can be jarring initially.

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  • 2019-03-26

The Best!

I recently became an atheist and this book has helped me escape the religious worldview.

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didnt need two narrators

the content was good with well thought arguments but I found the different narrators to be distracting. I would've preferred just hearing Dawkins narrate

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Thank you for the insight

Outstanding, easy to listen to while multi tasking. Will most certainly be listening too another time.

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The beauty in understanding

An amazing book making a beautifully written point for science, logic, sanity and the natural world for which you developed a deeper understanding as further you get into the book, to the point that you don’t need god sensed miracles anymore because you appreciate the miracles of the real world all around you so much more.

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Great, objective listen

I loved this entire book and could not stop listening. Dawkins critiques and analyses the bizarre logic of religion very forensically and in a way that is easy to digest and understand.
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Thought Provoking Book

If there is a single shred of doubt in your mind that religion isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, Dawkins can explain that doubt to you.

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  • SL
  • 2018-05-05

Very informative book. Quite a bit of science.

Lots of science in the beginning but great logic in the last few chapters. Very convincing.

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  • Joe
  • 2017-12-09

Horrible.

Again, horrible. If you’re an atheist who misses the joy of being subjected to condescending sermons, then this book is for you. Otherwise, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone more pedantic and self-aggrandizing than Mr. Dawkins. I squandered 60 agonizing minutes on this book before throwing in the towel. Don’t let the high-brow-sounding accent fool you — the book is boorish tripe, with nothing overly insightful to be gleaned from it. Just stay away.

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