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- Product code: 131128
- ISBN: 0593055489,
ISBN13: 9780593055489,
416 pages, hardback
Published by Bantam Press on 2006
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Description of The God Delusion |
Richard Dawkins was recently voted one of the world's top three intellectuals (alongside Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky) by "Prospect" magazine. As the author of many, now famous, classic works on science and philosophy, he has always asserted the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm it has inflicted on society. He now turns his fierce intellect exclusively on this subject, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, is dramatically and dangerously dividing opinion around the world. In America, and elsewhere, a vigorous dispute between 'intelligent design' and Darwinism is seriously undermining and restricting the teaching of science. In many countries religious dogma from medieval times still serves to abuse basic human rights such as women's and gay rights. And all from a belief in a God whose existence lacks evidence of any kind.Dawkins attacks God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed, cruel tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign, but still illogical, Celestial Watchmaker favoured 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.
In "The God Delusion" Dawkins presents a hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types and does so in the lucid, witty and powerful language for which he is renowned. It is a brilliantly argued, fascinating polemic that will be required reading for anyone interested in this most emotional and important subject.
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Reviews"A very important book, especially in these times...a magnificent book, lucid and wise, truly magisterial"
- Ian McEwan
"An entertaining, wildly informative, splendidly written polemic ... we are elegantly cajoled, cleverly harangued into shedding ourselves of this superficial nonsense that has bedevilled us since our first visit to Sunday school."
- Rod Liddle, Sunday Times
"Richard Dawkins is energising a huge unbelieving constituency in this country who feel disenfranchised by the present obsession with religion. All power to him we say."
- Terry Sanderson, Vice President of the National Secular Society
"A spirited and exhilarating read...Dawkins comes roaring forth in the full vigour of his powerful arguments, laying into fallacies and false doctrines with the energy of the polemicist at his most fiery."
- Joan Bakewell,The Guardian
"Could not be more apt for out times - Dawkins pulls out all the stops to demonstrate the force of his thesis in this passionate new book... lively and highly readable."
- Sunday Times
"Everyone should read it. Atheists will love Mr Dawkins's incisive logic and rapier wit and theists will find few better tests of the robustness of their faith."
- The Economist
"This is my favourite book of all time ... a heroic and life-changing work."
- Derren Brown
"A resounding trumpet blast for truth... It feels like coming up for air."
- Matt Ridley
"Written with all the clarity and elegance of which Dawkins is a master. It should have a place in every school library - especially in the library of every "faith" school."
- Philip Pullman
"One of the best non-fiction writers alive today"
- Steven Pinker
"This is a brave and important book. Is it too much to hope that it will dump religious bigotry in the dustbin of history where it belongs?"
- Desmond Morris
| About Richard Dawkins |
Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
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