Who has read THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins?

Question

I heard it is excellent. Has anyone read it?

Answer 1

I'm about 3/4 of the way through it. Can't recommend it enough. Reminds me a lot of Carl Sagan with attitude!

Answer 2

Dawkins is off the wall. He makes the same empty arguments that all atheists make trying to explain away the obvious, namely, that there is a God and that He created the universe. Creation is common sense. Wherever you see design there's got to be a designer. That's just common sense. It's like Paly once said. He said that if you're walking along in a forest and you find a watch that keeps perfect time, the only logical conclusion is that it was designed. Everywhere in the universe there is design. Just look around you. Anything that is living is infinitely complex. An atheist has to say what Dawkins says, namely, that there is no real design in the universe.....just the appearance of design.
You just can't logically and realistically deny that there's design all through the universe. It's all around you. You have to be blind not to see it. There are branches of science that basically just study the design in nature.........scientific disciplines such as nano-technology and bio-mimetrics. These disciplines study the design in nature.......whales,bats,dolphins have sonar.......and try to create machines that mimic that design. Everywhere you look there's design. Where there's design there's got to be a designer. That's just common sense. Creation is not an unproven theory. It's a common sense fact that we come to by just using a little logic and reason. If I was walking through the forest and I came upon a watch sitting on a rock and somebody asked me how that watch came about, I would say that someone designed it and then the blueprints were sent to a factory where it was put together. Dawkins would say that it came about the sane way the rock it is sitting on came about.....just by random chance natural processes. If you believe that, I've got some swampland I'd like to sell you....on Pluto.

Answer 3

I have it. I haven't read it yet because I have heard so many of his lectures and interviews about it that I am sure there is not much left in the book to be told that he hasn't discussed already.. I have been a Dawkins fan for years and have read all of his other books. I plan on reading "The God Delusion" soon. It is bound to be a fascinating book just like all of his other works.

Answer 4

See what the Bible says about philosophical books.
(2 Peter 3:1-9) Beloved ones, this is now the second letter I am writing YOU, in which, as in my first one, I am arousing YOUR clear thinking faculties by way of a reminder, 2 that YOU should remember the sayings previously spoken by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through YOUR apostles. 3 For YOU know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.” 5 For, according to their wish, this fact escapes their notice, that there were heavens from of old and an earth standing compactly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God; 6 and by those [means] the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water. 7 But by the same word the heavens and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men. 8 However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. 9 Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.

Answer 5

Richard Dawkins, aka admirer of Satan(without knowing it), author of a British book on birds ? The same one now advocating EUGENICS a la the Nazis of old with handicapped, "impaired" humans, etc. I rest my case. You don't have to believe in God, but you can always promote the works of the devil nevertheless. Dawkins is a case in point.
Card-carrying rationalists like Dawkins... are in one sense the least well-equipped to understand what they castigate, since they don’t believe there is anything there to be understood, or at least anything worth understanding. He does not stop there. Dawkin's suggestion that the State should consider intervening if Parents are transmitting questionable moral views is particularly heinous.
Write a book on birds and you think you know everything about everything.

Answer 6

I probably won't. Too much reading in the Universal Theology of the New Jerusalem by Emanuel Swedenborg.

Answer 7

I haven't yet, but it is on my list. I read his The Ancestor's Tale, and have recommended it numerous times in this forum. See the reviews in amazon.com for more views on the book.

Answer 8

i saw it at the strands the other day. they are offering a 20% discount. after going through the discussions here i feel like buying it at once.

Answer 9

Not yet. It's on my short-list, though.

Answer 10

I already know that believing is "god" is delusional I don't need a person to tell me how delustional it is.