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020			_a9781784161927
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100			_aDawkins, Richard
245			_aThe God delusion _cRichard Dawkins
260			_aLondon : _bBlack Swan, _c©2006.
300			_a463 pages ; _c20 cm
505			_tA deeply religious nonbeliever. -- _tThe God hypothesis. -- _tArguments for God's existence -- _tWhy there almost certainly is no God -- _tThe roots of religion -- _tThe roots of morality : why are we good? -- _tThe "good" book and the changing moral Zeitgeist -- _tWhat's wrong with religion? : why be so hostile? -- _tChildhood, abuse and the escape from religion -- _tA much needed gap?
520			_aA preeminent scientist asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society from the Crusades to 9/11. He critiques 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. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design," or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East--or Middle America.
650			_aAtheism
650			_aReligion
650			_aGod
650			_aGod--Proof
650			_aIrreligion
650			_aEvolution
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