The God delusion
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006., Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
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406 pages ; 24 cm.
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Dawkins argues that belief in God is irrational, and describes examples of religion's negative influences on society throughout the centuries, such as war, bigotry, child abuse, and violence
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English
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9780618680009, 0618680004
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Dawkins, R. (2006). The God delusion. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Dawkins, Richard, 1941-. 2006. The God Delusion. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Dawkins, Richard, 1941-, The God Delusion. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 2006.
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| 505 | 0 | |a A deeply religious nonbeliever -- Deserved respect -- Undeserved respect -- The God hypothesis -- Polytheism -- Monotheism -- Secularism, the founding fathers and the religion of America -- The poverty of agnosticism -- Noma -- The great prayer experiment -- The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists -- Little green men -- Arguments for God's existence -- Thomas Aquinas's "proofs" -- The ontological argument and other a priori arguments -- The argument from beauty -- The argument from personal "experience" -- The argument from Scripture -- The argument from admired religious scientists -- Pascal's Wager -- Bayesian arguments -- Why there almost certainly is no God -- The ultimate Boeing 747 -- Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser -- Irreducible complexity -- The worship of gaps -- The anthropic principle : planetary version -- The anthropic principle : cosmological version -- An interlude at Cambridge -- The roots of religion -- The Darwinian imperative -- Direct advantages of religion -- Group selection -- Religion as a byproduct of something else -- Psychologically primed for religion -- Tread softly, because you tread on my memes -- Cargo cults -- The roots of morality : why are we good? -- Does our moral sense have a Darwinian origin? -- A case study in the roots of morality -- If there is no God, why be good? -- The "good" book and the changing moral Zeitgeist -- The Old Testament -- Is the New Testament any better? -- Love thy neighbour -- The moral Zeitgeist -- What about Hitler and Stalin? : weren't they atheists? -- What's wrong with religion? : why be so hostile? -- Fundamentalism and the subversion of science -- The dark side of absolutism -- Faith and homosexuality -- Faith and the sanctity of human life -- The great beethoven fallacy -- How "moderation" in faith fosters fanaticism -- Childhood, abuse, and the escape from religion -- Physical and mental abuse -- In defence of children -- An educational scandal -- Consciousness-raising again -- Religious education as a part of literary culture -- A | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Atheism. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Religion. | |
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