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Theology

God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins

God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 A deeply religious non-believer 9
Deserved respect 11
Undeserved respect 20

Chapter 2 The God Hypothesis 29
Polytheism 32
Monotheism 37
Secularism, the Founding Fathers
and the religion of America 38
The poverty of agnosticism 46
NOMA 54
The Great Prayer Experiment 61
The Neville Chamberlain school
of evolutionists 66
Little green men 69

Chapter 3 Arguments for God's existence 75
Thomas Aquinas' 'proofs' 77
The ontological argument and other
a priori arguments 80
The argument from beauty 86
The argument from personal
'experience' 87
The argument from scripture 92
The argument from admired
religious scientists 97
Pascal's Wager 103
Bayesian arguments 105

Chapter 4 Why there almost certainly is
no God 111
The Ultimate Boeing 747 113
Natural selection as a
consciousness-raiser 114
Irreducible complexity 119
The worship of gaps 125
The anthropic principle: planetary
version 134
The anthropic principle: cosmological
version 141
An interlude at Cambridge 151

Chapter 5 The roots of religion 161
The Darwinian imperative 163
Direct advantages of religion 166
Group selection 169
Religion as a by-product of
something else 172
Psychologically primed for
religion 179
Tread softly, because you tread on
my memes 191
Cargo cults 202

Chapter 6 The roots of morality: why are
we good? 209
Does our moral sense have a
Darwinian origin? 214
A case study in the roots of
morality 222
If there is no God, why be good? 226

Chapter 7 The 'Good' Book and the changing
moral Zeitgeist 235
The Old Testament 237
Is the New Testament any better? 250
Love thy neighbour 254
The moral Zeitgeist 262
What about Hitler and Stalin?
Weren't they atheists? 272

Chapter 8 What's wrong with religion?
Why be so hostile? 279
Fundamentalism and the subversion
of science 282
The dark side of absolutism 286
Faith and homosexuality 289
Faith and the sanctity of human
life 291
The Great Beethoven Fallacy 298
How 'moderation' in faith fosters
fanaticism 301

Chapter 9 Childhood, abuse and the escape
from religion 309
Physical and mental abuse 315
In defence of children 325
An educational scandal 331
Consciousness-raising again 337
Religious education as a part of
literary culture 340

Chapter 10 A much needed gap? 345
Binker 347
Consolation 352
Inspiration 360
The mother of all burkas 362

Appendix: a partial list of friendly addresses, for
individuals needing support in escaping
from religion 375
Books cited or recommended 380
Notes 388
Index 400

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