The God Delusion in the hardback edition was widely described as the surprise bestseller of 2006. It was warmly received by the great majority of those who sent in their personal reviews to Amazon (more than 1,000 at the time of writing).
About the book In The God Delusion, renowned scientist and leading atheist Richard Dawkins delivers a compelling critique of belief in God, arguing that religion has historically wrought significant harm on society, from the Crusades to contemporary terrorism. With sharp intellect and humor, Dawkins dissects various portrayals of God, from the tyrannical figure of the Old Testament to the ...
Richard Dawkins. THE GOD DELUSION. A MARINER BOOK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Boston New York. 2. Copyright © 2006 by Richard Dawkins Preface © 2008 by Richard ...
"Richard Dawkins' ""The God Delusion"" critically examines religion and promotes atheism through scientific reasoning and philosophical arguments."
[The God Delusion, 77] "Even if we allow the dubious luxury of arbitrarily conjuring up a terminator to an infinite regress and giving it a name, simply because we need one, there is absolutely no reason to endow that terminator with any of the properties normally ascribed to God." [The God Delusion, 77]
The God Gene Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon argue that religion is a delusion or, at best, a misfiring of basic cognitive systems Richard Dawkins and God Imagine, Richard Dawkins suggests, a world with no religion: “Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no ...
The Penguin English Dictionary defines a delusion as 'a false belief or impression'. Surprisingly, the illustrative quotation the diction-ary gives is from Phillip E. Johnson: 'Darwinism is the story of humanity's liberation from the delusion that its destiny is controlled by a power higher than itself.'