The God Delusion - any comments?

Answer 1

How about condescending and patronizing while not very informative??
All Dawkins did was mock believers.

He didn't further his own cause, but instead made himself look like a jerk.

Answer 2

He parrots the same nonsense that every atheist and evolutionists say.....namely, that there no design in the universe, just the appearance of design. If you're an atheist you must deny design. If there is design then there has to be a designer. But the universe is filled with design and order. Who could design a universe? Only a God.
You look at bats. They do not fly by sight. They can barely see in the day but they sleep in the day. They are nocturnal creatures. They do all their activities at night and at night they are blind. They fly by means of sonar. They send out sound waves through their nose as they are flying. If those sound waves bounce off something and come back at them, they pick them up and know that they are heading toward something and need to veer in a different direction. Somehow they know how fast they are flying and they know that sound travels at 723 MPH and as they fly they continue to send out sound waves so they continue to get updated information. Given enough info(and continued updated info) a mathematician could sit down with a pencil and paper and some calculus equations and figure out how far the bat was from the object and with the right info could even figure out if the object the bat is heading toward is stationary or moving toward the bat or away from it. But that would take time and if the bat took that much time he’d be flying into trees and telephone poles other things. We have developed computers that can do that in a second. That's what sonar is all about. The bat has a computer in his head that can figure that info out in a nanosecond. It knows what it is heading for without being able to physically see. It's flying by instruments(as pilots would say). Do you really think that the sonar equipment that is in the bats head just came about by random chance(read....luck) natural processes? You do if you're an atheist.
Or, take a human brain. In your brain there are 100 billion neurons. Each one of those neurons(remember, there's 100 billion of them) is connected to 1000 other neurons. That comes out to 100 trillion connections in your brain. These connections send electronic signals(and you can measure the electricity) from one place to another. If part of the brain is damaged and you lose some function that is controlled by that part of the brain, the brain can actually re-wire itself and let other neurons in the undamaged part of the brain take over so that you can get back that function. That's only the connections in the brain, not the rest of the body.
Our bodies also have tons of information in the DNA. You have enough information in your DNA to fill encyclopedia sized books stacked from here to the moon and back 500 times. Do you really think that came about by just random chance........kind of like a monkey typing out the works of Shakespear just by randomly plucking away at the keys?
If a scientist were to say that a machine like an IBM computer just evolved over billions of years everybody would say he was crazy. But somehow when it's a living machine like your brain(which is a zillion times more complex than any IBM computer), the rules get changed and then it's OK to say it just evolved.

Answer 3

Dawkins is at his best when he explains evolutionary theory, and he provides an interesting and plausible explanation of how and why religious belief might have arisen using that theory.

Much of the book is a polemic in favour of atheism, and although an atheist leaning agnostic myself, I found this less convincing, although I agree with him about the dangers of indoctrinating children with religious belief. It is, in my view, as immoral as sexual abuse of children, and for exactly the same reasons.

Answer 4

ive tried drugs, and I know God sends strong delusion, but when i beheld the vision of Jesus christ, I know what i saw was more real than anything that can prove the existence of God.

Answer 5

I'm almost finished with Richard Dawkins book. I HIGHLY recommend it; it's extremely informative and simply a great read. I go over it all the time and sometimes use it in this forum.

:-)

Answer 6

The book?

Answer 7

Haven't read it have no desire to it is in the same category as the Davinci Code nice sience fiction but no soul to it.

Answer 8

I'm not going to touch this.

Thanks for the 2 points though.

Answer 9

YES! i'm reading it now - it's HILARIOUS. honestly, i think dawkins could be a comedian. the way he rips on these people's arguments makes me laugh out loud reading it. love it.

Answer 10

>any comments?

It is a book.
It is by Richard Dawkins.
It is about disproving religion.
It has a cover.

~ Lib