The God Delusion

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Bantam Press
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 406 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Richard Dawkins is one of the countrys most famous scientists. He is also one of our most outspoken critics of religion. In The God Delusion he presents his arguments for atheism. While this book is unashamedly polemical, Dawkins adopts the rigorous approach of a scientist and applies it to the questions of religion, religous faith and the existence of God. Some of the issues he addresses include:* A history of religious conflict.* The impossibility of disproving the existence of God - something that has become a get out of jail free argument for the inviolability of religion.* Morality, where it becomes extra-religious; many moral changes and definition (e.g. womens rights, black civil rights) have occured sometimes against the resistance of the religious community.* The fact that in some countries religion remains an excuse for the subjugation of womens rights.* The fact that by forcing religious belief on our children we are denying them intellectual freedom.* Denial of evolution which is an impediment to intellectual progress.* Science fulfilling the same psychological needs as religion.This is a hard-hitting, accessible and powerfully thought-out examination of religion in the modern world. While the West is becoming increasingly secularised, the rise of religious fundamentalism in other parts of the world is dividing opinion. This is a timely and extremely controversial book that will be required reading for anyone interested in this most emotional and fundamental of subjects.

ISBN: 9780593055489