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| Vendor Notes: | “Hardcover in Dazzling condition” |
| Newsletter 365 days: | 2006 | Layout: | Hardcover |
| Language: | English | ISBN: |
9780618680009 |
| EAN: |
9780618680009 |
| Synopsis | |
| “A preeminent scientist – and the field’s most illustrious atheist – asserts the irrationality of perception in God and the coarse ruin faith has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.”–BOOK JACKET. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0618680004 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780618680009 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 59033260 |
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| Creator | Richard Dawkins |
| Number Of Pages | 416 pages |
| Layout | Hardcover |
| Newsletter Date | 2006-10-18 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Firm |
| Newsletter 365 days | 2006 |
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| Copyright Date | 2006 |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 24 Oz19459034] |
| Height | 1.2 In. |
| Width | 6 In. |
| Length | 9 In. |
| Draw Viewers | |
| Neighborhood | Replace |
| Classification Arrangement | |
| LCCN | 2006-015506 |
| LC Classification Number | BL2775.3.D39 2006 |
| Dewey Decimal | 211.8 |
| Dewey Version | 22 |
| Guide | |
| eBook Layout | GlassBook |
| Table Of Suppose | |
| CONTENTS Preface 1 1 A DEEPLY RELIGIOUS NON-BELIEVER 9 Deserved appreciate 11 Undeserved appreciate 20 2 THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 29 Polytheism 32 Monotheism 37 Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the faith of The US 38 The poverty of agnosticism 46 NOMA 54 The Fine Prayer Experiment 61 The Neville Chamberlain college of evolutionists 66 Shrimp green males 69 3 ARGUMENTS FOR GOD”S EXISTENCE 75 Thomas Aquinas” “proofs” 77 The ontological argument and other a priori arguments 80 The argument from elegance 86 The argument from private “expertise” 87 The argument from scripture 92 The argument from admired religious scientists 97 Pascal”s Wager 103 Bayesian arguments 105 4 WHY THERE ALMOST CERTAINLY IS NO GOD 111 The Closing Boeing 747 113 Natural choice as a consciousness-raiser 114 Irreducible complexity 119 The esteem of gaps 125 The anthropic precept: planetary version 134 The anthropic precept: cosmological version 141 An interlude at Cambridge 151 5 THE ROOTS OF RELIGION 161 The Darwinian crucial 163 Utter advantages of faith 166 Neighborhood choice 169 Faith as a derivative of something else 172 Psychologically primed for faith 179 Tread softly, on myth of you tread on my memes 191 Cargo cults 202 6 THE ROOTS OF MORALITY: WHY ARE WE GOOD? 209 Does our factual sense hang a Darwinian starting put? 214 A case survey within the roots of morality 222 If there might be no longer one of these thing as a God, why be magnificent? 226 7 THE “GOOD” BOOK AND THE CHANGING MORAL ZEITGEIST 235 The Former Testament 237 Is the Amassed Testament any greater? 250 Esteem thy neighbour 254 The factual Zeitgeist 262 What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren”t they atheists? 272 8 WHAT”S WRONG WITH RELIGION? WHY BE SO HOSTILE? 279 Fundamentalism and the subversion of science 282 The unlit aspect of absolutism 286 Faith and homosexuality 289 Faith and the sanctity of human existence 291 The Fine Beethoven Fallacy 298 How “moderation” in faith fosters fanaticism 301 9 CHILDHOOD, ABUSE AND THE ESCAPE FROM RELIGION 309 Physical and mental abuse 315 In defence of kids 325 An tutorial scandal 331 Consciousness-raising as soon as more 337 Non secular education as a component of literary culture 340 10 A MUCH NEEDED GAP? 345 Binker 347 Comfort 352 Inspiration 360 The mom of all burkas 362 Appendix: A partial list of friendly addresses, for folks wanting toughen in escaping from faith 375 Books cited or recommended 380 Notes 388 Index 400 | |
| Evaluations | |
| “A important argument for the vogue to take into myth the put of faith within the new world. It will be a classic.” — Seed Magazine “Within the roiling debate between science and faith, it might in all probability perchance perchance even be laborious to magnify the big have an effect on of Richard Dawkins.” Salon “An especially total case in opposition to faith. All people might perchance perchance silent read it. Atheists will love Mr. Dawkins’s incisive common sense and rapier wit, and theists will safe few greater tests of the robustness of their faith.” –Economist “If I needed to title Dawkins’s cardinal virtues, I’d say that he’s ideal, relate, impassioned, and impolite . . .The God Delusion is an impressive and important book.” The San Francisco Narrative “A resounding trumpet blast for truth . . . It looks like coming up for air.” –Matt Ridley, author of Genome and Francis Crick “Someway, one among the appropriate nonfiction writers alive on the present time has assembled his tips on faith correct into a characteristically comely book.” –Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard College, author of The Language Instinct, How the Thoughts Works, and The Clean Slate “Dawkins presents human sympathies and feelings their moral designate, which…lends his criticisms of faith such pressure.” –Philip Pullman, author of His Darkish Materials trilogy “Richard Dawkins is the main soothsayer of our time. . . . The GodDelusion continues his thought-horrifying custom.” –J. Craig Venter, decoder of the human genome “The God Delusion is lustrous, compassionate, and appropriate . . . If this book would no longer switch the field, we’re all screwed.” –Penn & Teller “The sphere desires . . . passionate rationalists . . . Richard Dawkins so stands out by approach to the slicing intelligence of The God Delusion.” –James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, author of The Double Helix “Right here’s a dauntless and demanding book.” –Desmond Morris, author of The Bare Ape and The Human Animal Delusion continues his thought-horrifying custom.” –J. Craig Venter, decoder of the human genome | |
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