The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | Eye opener even for current non-believers

The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | Not an easy book to give a rating of 5!

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The God Delusion

	The God Delusion Richard Dawkins Mariner Books, 2008 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 1265 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Eye opener even for current non-believers

First of all, I can't help but wonder how many of the one star reviewers actually read the book. Saying the author is going to hell is NOT a review.

Anyway, maybe I should judge, because i don't plan on getting into detail about the book. I will say though, that this book is not only a great read, but a truly eye opening and interesting read.

If you have doubts about the religion that was forced upon you...read this book!

Not an easy book to give a rating of 5!

Hey whats up folks? This book is for me one of the most well thought arguments on behalf of atheism that I have come across. His argumants are sharply laid out, I kept getting the feeling that as an agnostic that I was a perfect target for his words. Meaning that he would present an argument as if he were leading me down a winding path with the only route of escape being the shedding of my belief in either god and/or organized religion. There was one problem and that is that after all is said and done no scientific theory is permanent, scientific knowledge is tentative meaning that as a rational minded person I could agree with him on the organized religion part but was not in any way able to follow him on the ultimate argument of god's non-existence. That being said do please pick up this book, whether you are a theist,an agnostic, or an atheist it will only make you a better person for hearing this brilliant man out.

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It's a myth, buster!

The Gerswhins got right to the point when they wrote "The things that you're liable to read in the Bible, they ain't necessarily so." Likewise did Augusten Burroughs when, in one of his books, he wrote something along the line of "Jesus is just Santa Claus for adults". With those pithy examples in mind, Richard Dawkins' THE GOD DELUSION would pack more of a knockout punch if the author had trimmed down his exhaustive prose and gone instead for a blunter, more direct style. There are hard nuggets of truth buried among the pages and pages of scientific and psychological examinations for why people believe what they do and how those beliefs continue to spread - perhaps like viruses - even in the face of conflicting evidence. (For example, Dawkins relates that our universe - perhaps one of many but we just don't know yet - contains about 100 BILLION galaxies; with so much real estate to manage, it does seem a trifle unlikely that God - or any Supreme Being - would have time to pop into your head and tell you to pick the job at Starbucks over Target, for example, or answer any prayers from the hundreds of millions of folks who pray on a daily basis.) Readers just have to dig for the kernels and keep slogging long and hard through Dawkins' "viewed from every facet" approach to demolishing religious irrationality. Still, the book does make the point that man created God (and gods plural, especially the ones no longer worshipped liked Osiris, Zeus, Thor, Apollo, Athena, Isis, etc. - let's just take it one further to the big "G" himself and get it over with...) and not the other way around, and that if we're to worship anyone, it's Charles Darwin for formulating the ideas of evolution and natural selection. Sam Harris' THE END OF FAITH goes more for the jugular and so packs a much stronger wallop than THE GOD DELUSION - especially in Harris' damning howler of a chapter on Islam - but Dawkins' gentler approach eventually causes for greater reflection on the persistence and terrifyingly real dangers of religion in our modern world.

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Rambling, sometimes random...

I find myself thinking "How am I supposed to review a book written by someone who is smarter than I am?"

So instead of doing what most people do -- instead of attacking his arguments -- let me talk about the book's structure, style and flow.

Which is to say, there is some. Dawkins first explains his position. He then outlines his intended goal, and how he intends to get there. He tackles each argument for the existence of god with a counter-argument based on essentially the same thing every time. I call it the "my position isn't as logically bad as your position" method. In other words, he admits that he has no proof god does not exist. His only support for his argument for atheism is the unlikelihood of god's existence in terms of probability.

Essentially, Dawkins is saying "I'm better than theists because my belief is more believable".

Which, to me, is not worth wrapping hundreds of pages around. So I found the book to be a bore after the first 5 chapters or so. He could've distilled the salient points of the book into a single essay. And for that, it gets 3 stars, which I feel is generous.

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