The God Delusion
| Book | The God Delusion |
| Cover Art by | Noma Bar |
| Typeset by | Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd |
| Printed and Bound by | Cox & Wyman Ltd |
| Copyright Holder | Richard Dawkins |
| Imprint | Black Swan, Transworld Publishers |
| Publisher | The Random House Group Ltd. |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | UK |
| Copyright | 2006 |
| This Edition Published | 2007 |
| Pages / Font | 463 pages / Minion 11/13pt |
| Barcode | 9780552773317 |
| ISBN | 978-0-552-77331-7 |
| Printer's Key | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 |
| Price | UK £8.99 |
| Chapters | Preface to the paperback edition Preface Chapter 1 - A deeply religious non-believer Deserved respect Undeserved respect Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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? Chapter 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? Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 |
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