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A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.

With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines 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. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.

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"A powerful argument for how to think about the place of religion in the modern world. It's going to be a classic." -- Seed Magazine

"In the roiling debate between science and religion, it would be hard to exaggerate the enormous influence of Richard Dawkins." Salon

"A particularly comprehensive case against religion. 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." --Economist

"If I had to identify Dawkins's cardinal virtues, I would say that he is brilliant, articulate, impassioned, and impolite . . .The God Delusion is a fine and significant book." The San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestor’s Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devil’s Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books; Reprint edition (January 16, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0618918248
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0618918249
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.06 x 8.25 inches

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bombadillo

Will make you a proud atheist

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019

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I love this book. I can't believe I was ever religious. Reading this just reminds me that I should be proud to be an atheist, as it's the only real logical choice in life. It reminds me that I can embrace it just as much as Christians embrace Christianity. I can and should be proud and happy with my choices -- not only my choices, but my reasonable acceptance of the universe for what it is. Honestly, since becoming atheist (after leaving an extremely fundamentalist cult religion) I have so much more appreciation for science, my body, the universe, geology, etc etc etc. Atheism truly brings me joy. What discouragement comes from accepting that there is no "purpose" in my existence or afterlife is swallowed up in the wonder at existing at all, in our current form, on this beautiful planet, and the opportunity to make my life what I want it to be. Thank you for teaching me to celebrate, Richard! May your legacy live on! The world would be a better place without the God delusion.

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Edwin Dalorzo

To help you remove the blindfold of religion

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2018

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More than just questioning the existence of God the book is about the devastating effects of religion throughout history and in our time as well. It offers very compelling arguments of why we’d be better off without it and devastates with solid logic any arguments in its favor. Presents lots of very interesting stories of the long debates of religion vs science and offers insightful theories on the evolution of religion and morality. At the end provides inspiration to seek the truth through science and find solace in it.

The author is very insightful and I like his style of writing, often times times sarcastic, but always very smart and appealing to logic and reason.

I found this book very educational and super interesting and has helped me solidify my beliefs with stronger arguments.

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Enjoyed this one

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017

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This was an interesting book. I've read Hitchens, Barker, Harris and Ebling's for the humor. I don't understand how people can still fall for supernatural nonsense. In the age of scientific information, ingnorance is a choice. I'd rather read scores of books and come away with a handful of solid reasonable answers to life's questions than read the bible and think I know it all. I don't think we'll ever have all the "answers" but with input books like this one provides, we get enough. I don't need to know everything. I don't need a purpose. I don't need to know why I'm here. I just am. The whole punishment / reward afterlife thing is ridiculous, it wreeks of being a product of man's imagination, and who really wants to spend eternity with the god character depicted in the bible anyway? Someone said in a review for another book that people don't read widely or think deeply so religion and blind faith will be the track that most people will stay on. Unfortunate, but probably true. Well put at any rate. I always thought religion is the product of lazy minds. Anyway, I recommend this book to anyone " on the fence " concerning religion. If books like this don't, at the very least, shake your faith, then do us all a favor and check into the closest mental facility. Good day.

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Kevin Lacy

Gets you thinking

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018

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This book came at an important time in my life when I was seriously wondering what it was I believed in. I grew up in a Christian household and was never super active in my church but also never questioned what it was I was raised to believe; until, that is, I read this book. Personally I think that Richard Dawkins has a bit of a chip on his shoulder, but you can't deny his intelligence and the work he has put into this book. I would highly recommend this book

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Stacy M.

This book is for objective minds!

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2018

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Dawkins has written one of the best books I have ever read. I say this because he presents dense, but more importantly, unbiased objective arguments throughout the entire book. This book has actually inspired me to purchase an array of similar books.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2019

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Very good blah Bla blah to wash empty brains. But I'd rather have a Wonderful God guiding my mind than just a human being like me. Poison also kills and we do not have to ingest it to know it.

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David B. Gardner

Scientific Sounding, But Pure Guesswork Nonetheless

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2020

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This book is well written and Dawkins is obviously a very intelligent and well learned professor. There are points made in this book that have some validity to the average reader. However when it comes down to the ultimate issue, i.e. how was the universe created i.e. how was life set in motion i.e. why have people throughout the ages looked to a higher power to answer that question, unfortunately Dawkins literally has no answer.

I will base my review on chapter 4, Why There Almost Certainly Is No God. This chapter is essentially the basis of all of Dawkins' arguments; trying to show that the origin of the universe and all life in it can be explained scientifically, coupled with the fact that there is no physical evidence of any God or supernatural power. I will concede, for the sake of this argument, that there exists ample evidence of MICRO-evolution and therefore natural selection. But the problem is that even if you do that, you still end up at the point of origin. What started time? How was the universe set in motion? How was the first life created?

Dawkins' answer? The Anthropic Principle, which holds that the fact that we are here on earth is proof in and of itself that the universe is conducive to creating life. In his words "however improbable the origin of life might be, we know it happened on Earth because we are here." But that doesn't explain what (or who) started the whole thing in the first place! Here are direct quotes from chapter 4.

"The origin of life is a flourishing, if speculative subject for research....I shall not be surprised if, within the next few years, chemists will report that they have successfully midwifed a new origin of life in the laboratory. Nevertheless it hasn't happened yet, and.....the probability of its happening is, and always was, exceedingly low, although it did happen once!"

And here comes his theory, which thoughtful and intelligent people are going to find way more believable than the foolish God stuff. Quoting again from chapter 4 "It has been estimated that there are between 1 billion and 30 billion planets in our galaxy, and about 100 billion galaxies in the universe.....if the odds of life originating spontaneously on a planet were a billion to one against, nevertheless that stupifyingly improbable event would still happen on a billion planets.....Even accepting the most pessimistic estimate of the probability that life might spontaneously originate, this statistical argument completely demolishes any suggestion that we should postulate design [i.e. God] to fill the gap.....[T]o repeat, the origin of life was...a unique event that only had to happen once.....Once that initial stroke of luck has been granted.....natural selection takes over."

So what he is saying is that since there are so many billions of planets and galaxies, surely life must have just spontaneously originated on just one of them, because it only took "a stroke of luck" on one out of a billion billion and boom, the origin of life is explained.

Using that logic, Christians could say the same thing about Christ's resurrection and miracles, or any of the miraculous stories from the Old and New Testament which Dawkins repeatedly deems preposterous. In fact you could probably use that logic to prove anything you could possibly dream up. Well it only takes one time out of a billion galaxies so that makes it true. LOL! Not to mention that he still needs to explain how the universe and galaxies were created in the first place. Oh yeah, the fact that we are here to talk about it proves that.

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Simranjeet Singh

This should be mandatory reading.

Reviewed in India on October 18, 2018

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I am from a Sikh family and though there's not a single mention of the teachings of Sikhism in this book, you don't need that to clear all the doubts, and thus the burden of living while looking up to or being afraid of something that doesn't exist! Richard Dawkins is mostly responsible for my atheism and he always beautifully, and logically explained everything. The best part of the book is the explanation of the goodness gene, and thus the sole credit that religion tries to take, i.e. the fact that we behave like good people with each other, is proven to not be theirs. Religions stand exposed, naked and ugly, thanks to this book and if it were up to me, I would make it a mandatory reading in all schools and colleges in my country India, which is held back by religion like nothing else.

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Dmitry Usenco

evolutionist's nightmare

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2019

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Richard Dawkins tries to achieve the impossible in this book. On the one hand, he is keen to prove that religion is conditioned by evolution; on the other hand, he is convinced that religion is wrong. But how can an apparently beneficial evolutionary acquisition have proceeded on a completely false assumption for so many centuries? Would not its inadequacy backfire at some stage to cause a complete collapse of human culture and or maybe even human species? Even if, as Dawkins wants us to believe, religion is a case of spiritual parasitism, the question is again, Why has this parasite lived in symbiosis with the host to the latter's obvious advantage over other earthly species, while staying under delusion (i.e. misguided in its interaction with the outside world) all this time? Unable to overcome this impasse, the author succumbs in the rest of the book to telling scary stories about religion which he simply borrows from public domain. Yet even here he is not consistent. He completely ignores, for example, the case of Cambodian genocide in the early 1980s. Sure, exterminating religion was one of Pol Pot's explicit goals in that bloody campaign. To express my chagrin in one sentence: NO, I AM NOT AN ATHEIST, BUT... I wonder if we shall ever live to see the day when a decent book on atheism is written.

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Evolution of The God Delusion

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2018

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When 'The God Delusion' was first published. My initial thoughts concluded that the title was designed to provoke and generate sales, so I ignored it then, now in its tenth edition, I bought an ebook copy.
I agree with the assertion, and I admire the science. But I do not consider it possible for science ever to realise what I call the nucleus of life. To me, science is like the innocent kitten fighting its mirror image. Genuine and clever but that blocks its progress by insisting on empirical evidence where there is none to have from a mirror image.
Western Christian Religion though is a treacherous mind virus that betrayed the original knowledge in exchange for the power of a pervasive power hierarchy and financial gain. I suggest a different perspective though that maybe you have not experienced before.
Evolution over Creationism, I suggest they are mutually the same from a physical perspective; the so-called Big bang started somewhere as did the so-called God intelligent designer. Just because we do not know the answers directly in our manifested world, does not automatically imply support for the core argument of the book. Namely, God does not exist.
I do not like to use the word 'God' because of the status Assumed in today's world has become so twisted and mocked it is meaningless. As stated in the book, there had been many Gods, and the author took the last one out of the equation. Richard Dawkins is like many humans in today's world they do not know who they are! There is a subtle issue that slips past his intellect and slips past most; he is not alone. Dawkins advocates that humans are just meaningless chances that come from a zillion chances of evolution. If anybody were to ask Richard Dawkins to identify himself, he would point to a passport or a driving licence or some other equivalent document. The subtle slip that seems lost is that these documents are the property of another legal entity linked to the Catholic Church. Essentially Dawkins is stating that he is the property of the Catholic Church! So, after all, his hard work he still claims to be the property of the Catholic church. The irony!

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Donald MacKenzie

Not Dawkins' best subject

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2019

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While I agree with Dawkins' conclusions before reading, it is disappointing that he is unable to present his case with well-reasoned, LOGICAL, arguments. He might do well to go back and at least study logic, then take another turn at making his case. It is truly unworthy of him to base so much on the practice of building straw men just to knock them down. Dawkins' insults his audience.
From a purely rational perspective, Dawkins fails miserably. If you already agree with his basic premise, don’t bother with the book: it advances the argument against religion not at all.

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A R Cater

A reasoned but devastating critique of religious belief

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2018

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Richard Dawkins has applied the scientific method to the phenomenon of religious beliefs examining the evidence for and substance of those beliefs. Through simple logic he demonstrates the inconsistencies and irrationalities upon which religious beliefs rely. An immense amount of research and analysis has gone into the production of this book. Anyone troubled by doubts about their religious faith should read this book and take comfort from it.

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