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211/.8 22BL2775.3.D39 2006Preceded byFollowed byThe God Delusion is a 2006 book by English biologist, a professorial fellow at and former holder of the at the.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a qualifies as a, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory. He is sympathetic to 's statement in (1991) that 'when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.' With many examples, he explains that one does not need religion to be moral and that the roots of religion and of morality can be explained in non-religious terms.In early December 2006, it reached number four in the after nine weeks on the list. More than three million copies were sold.According to Dawkins in a 2016 interview with, an unauthorised Arabic translation of this book has been downloaded 3 million times in. The book has attracted widespread commentary, with many books written in response.

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The God Delusion, page 147-150. 'The general theory of religion as an accidental by-product – a misfiring of something useful – is the one I wish to advocate' The God Delusion, p. 188. 'the purpose of this section is to ask whether meme theory might work for the special case of religion' (italics in original, referring to one of the five sections of Chapter 5), The God Delusion, p. 191. Having given some examples of what he considers to be the brutish morality of the Old Testament, Dawkins writes, 'Of course, irritated theologians will protest that we don't take the book of Genesis literally any more.

But that is my whole point! We pick and choose which bits of scripture to believe, which bits to write off as symbols and allegories.' The God Delusion, p. 238. He gives examples of cases where have been used to sentence people to death, and when funerals of gays or gay sympathisers have been picketed. Dawkins states preachers in the southern portions of the United States used the Bible to justify slavery by claiming Africans were descendants of 's sinful son.

During the, pagans and heretics who would not convert to Christianity were murdered. In an extreme example from modern times, he cites the case of Reverend, who revelled in his self-styled martyrdom: 'I expect a great reward in heaven. I am looking forward to glory,' he announced as he faced execution for murdering a doctor who performed abortions in Florida, USA., The God Delusion, Black Swan, 2007, page 294 ( ). Archived from on 1 April 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2008.

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New Haven: Yale University Press: 2013. Hart goes on to say 'not knowing the scholastic distinction between primary and secondary causality, for instance, he imagined that Thomas's talk of a 'first cause' referred to the initial temporal causal agency in a continuous temporal series of discrete causes. He thought that Thomas's logic requires the universe to have had a temporal beginning, which Thomas explicitly and repeatedly made clear is not the case. He anachronistically mistook Thomas's argument from universal natural teleology for an argument from apparent 'Intelligent Design' in nature. He thought Thomas's proof from universal 'motion' concerned only physical movement in space, 'local motion,' rather than the ontological movement from potency to act. He mistook Thomas's argument from degrees of transcendental perfection for an argument from degrees of quantitative magnitude, which by definition have no perfect sum.

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Retrieved 1 November 2015.Further reading Chronological order of publication (oldest first). Joan Bakewell: ', The Guardian, 23 September 2006.

Stephen D. Unwin: ', The Guardian, 29 September 2006.: ', (requires subscription). 30 September 2006. Paul Riddell: ', 6 October 2006.: ', (requires subscription).

7 October 2006. Troy Jollimore: ', 15 October 2006.: ', 22 October 2006. Jim Holt: ', 22 October 2006.: ', Vol.28, No.20,19 October 2006.: ', November 2006.

Eric W. Lin: ', 1 November 2006.: ', December 2006. Michael Fitzpatrick: ', 18 December 2006.

Bill Muehlenberg: 'A Review of The God Delusion':, on the Australian commentator's CultureWatch blog. Robert Stewart: ', The Journal of Evolutionary Philosophy.

Allen Orr: ', 11 January 2007.: ', (requires subscription), 17 January 2007.:, 15 February 2007.: Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God, Emmaus Road Publishing, 2008.External links Wikiquote has quotations related to:Wikimedia Commons has media related to. – Extracts from The God Delusion.