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The God Delusion

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

 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. Atheism Religious Studies Science Inspiring Humanism Mathematics Middle East Agnostic Morality Iran Intelligent Design
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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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Outstanding, easy to listen to while multi tasking. Will most certainly be listening too another time.

Thank you for the insight

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Should be required reading in every high school on the planet.
Amazingly narrated.
Can imagine I will re-listen.

Great book

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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.

Thought Provoking Book

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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.

A must read

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

Very informative book. Quite a bit of science.

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