The God delusion /
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| Author / Creator: | Dawkins, Richard, 1941- |
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| Edition: | 1st Mariner Books ed. |
| Imprint: | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008. |
| Description: | 463 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7488000 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the paperback edition
- Preface
- 1. A Deeply Religious Non-Believer
- Deserved respect
- Undeserved respect
- 2. 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
- 3. Arguments for God's Existence
- Thomas Aquinas' '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
- 4. 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
- 5. The Roots of Religion
- The Darwinian imperative
- Direct advantages of religion
- Group selection
- Religion as a by-product of something else
- Psychologically primed for religion
- Tread softly, because you tread on my memes
- Cargo cults
- 6. 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?
- 7. 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?
- 8. 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
- 9. 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
- 10. A Much Needed Gap?
- Binker
- Consolation
- Inspiration
- The mother of all burkas
- Appendix. A partial list of friendly addresses, for individuals needing support in escaping from religion
- Books cited or recommended
- Notes
- Index