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

The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | very interesting

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The God Delusion

	The God Delusion Richard Dawkins Mariner Books, 2008 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 1217 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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very interesting

Very interesting book. I was told every day that the Bible was FACT, raised in a Catholic school, etc. It is good to see the other side of the argument. Freed my mind!

I hope this doesn't send me straight to hell!

God, if you don't want me to publish this give me a sign, lightning, wind - something...

Alright, You've spoken...

"God"-forbid we think for ourselves!

Although this book was a bit winded, it for the most part sailed through all the usual arguments that we atheists have in our beliefs ( or lack there-of) towards a "God" (do you still have to capitalize that word when it doesn't mean anything to you).

I must say that I think I have read enough about Darwinism. I would like to hear what a few astrophysysicts have to say on the matter.

Anyway, good read but be prepared some really long, boardering on run-on, sentences.

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This is "been there, done that" for most atheists

An ok effort from Dawkins. As an atheist, I found it somewhat ho-hum, and there are very few new arguments in this book.

The book does, however, act as a decent reference book of the bulk of arguments from both sides.

Dawkins does show a little bit of laziness here and after addressing a series of historical philosophical arguments for the existence of God, neglects fully the TAG (Transcendental argument for the existence of God), which is one of the more recent and well known arguments. In some ways, Dawkins points in the book line up and agree with the TAG, that is, where he says that we don't know we can trust our senses, or why the world makes sense.

In the 1st chapter, he also makes a mistake in discussing a court case where a young boy wears an offensive t-shirt to school. After reading the court proceedings, I realized that Dawkins presented it in an unusual slant, and it has little to do with religion at all.

Dawkins also mixes up "The Gospel of Thomas" with the so called "Infancy Gospel of Thomas", but I can't imagine that he cared that much, since he shows little respect for the bible and probably thinks that they are all about the same anyway.

Other than that, the book is clearly written, well organized and progresses well with each chapter building on top of the previous chapters.

While Dawkins may convince a few fence sitters, I don't think he will disturb many theists, who will view him as hostile immediately and probably stop listening. Dawkins has a difficult time sympathizing with a theistic reader and makes almost no effort to do any more than present a barrage of facts and sits there at the end and says "if you don't believe me, you're stupid".

As I said, good as a reference, but not much more than that unless you are seeing ideas like this for the first time.

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