The God Delusion in Atheists and Skeptics

Sep 24, 2007 Anica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: changedmylife

Well, this settles it once and for all. There is no God. Which turns out to be a good thing, considering the God most Americans believe in is a crazy, vengeful, ego-maniacal monster. Dawkins’ insights are so cunning and profound you can’t help feeling embarrassed for the believer.

Some of the main arguments:
Believer #1: The diversity of life is too complex to be random, so it must have been designed by someone even more complex.
Dawkins: If the designer is so complex, then it must’ve been created ...more

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Jun 13, 2007 -uht! rated it liked it

Shelves: religion

Okay, so it starts off very dismissive, pedantic, and dickish, but in the last half, this book totally grew on me. There is some really decent information in here that could've only been written by Dawkins. I really had to get through about 150 or 200 pages to anything that spoke to me, but I really dug the section "Why There Almost Certainly Is No God" and especially loved the section on religious memes, comparing them to the selfish gene. Also very fascinating was the section on "cargo cults" ...more

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Jun 17, 2007 Marina Keenan rated it really liked it

Dawkins makes a comprehensive and effective case that God probably doesn't exist, but more importantly he discusses the way "belief", in the Christian tradition, and especially in the United States, has become sacrosanct and has intruded upon secular life in ways that could only make sense to the blindly faithful. However, Dawkins preaches to the choir (as usual), and in doing so loses an audience he hopes to influence, those who struggle with dogma imposed on them during formative years. He cri ...more

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Apr 08, 2008 Aaron rated it really liked it

Shelves: faith-and-lack-thereof

I enjoyed the majority of this book... the latter half much more than the former. Although I'm a strong atheist myself, I'm not quite sold on Dawkin's argument against the probability of God. It is solid reasoning, of course, and he does a great job of destroying any logical argument for god in general, and for the God of Christianity/Judaism/Islam in particular. For those with faith, however, reason doesn't matter, and possibly never will. I don't get it, myself, but I understand that a lot of ...more

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Jul 12, 2007 Krishan rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-math-and-philosophy

Here Dawkins explains why belief in God is incompatible with a reasonable scientific worldview. Dawkins spends more time on the science than Harris or Hitchens do. If you like 'The End of Faith' you like this too. ...more

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