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Religion & Spirituality.
Nonfiction.
HTML:A preeminent scientist??and the world's most prominent atheist??asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever m… (más)
robertf: Dawkins is passionately trying to refute an undefined hypothesis - this is perhaps one of his least succesful works. Ehrman's book does not have conversion to atheism as its aim - it is a description of the scholarly analysis of texts. The reason it is devastating to religion is that it undermines any claim to biblical authenticity by exposing contradictions between different manuscripts. It achieves what Dawkins aims to much more subtly and scientifically.… (más)
ehines: While I agree with Dawkins and disagree with Gardner about the existence of God, Gardner's open-mindedness judicious and friendly tone, even in error, serves as a rebuke to Dawkins' inability to understand or respect his intellectual opponents.
Dawkins afirma la irracionalidad de la creencia en Dios y el daño que la religión ha causado a la sociedad, desde las Cruzadas hasta el 11-S. Con rigor e ingenio examina a Dios en todas sus formas, desde el tirano obsesionado por el sexo del Antiguo Testamento, hasta el benigno relojero celestial favorecido por algunos pensadores de la Ilustración, y así demuestra la improbabilidad de un ser supremo.
Como otros libros de Dawkins maravillosamente fácil de leer y obsesivo en el aspecto de que no puedes parar hasta acabarlo. El tema es importante y los argumentos extensos. Es casi un libro de texto docente que cubre la totalidad del ateismo y sus por qués. Puede que a los convencidos se nos haga demasiado detallista, puede que su beligerancia (muy alta) aún pueda parecer educada, pero objetivamente es perfecto con todos los extremos perfectamente medidos en su importancia real. IMPRESCINDIBLE ( )
That was the first time I had ever considered, even in my own thoughts to myself, that I could be an atheist. I was 36. My husband was down with this—he told me he was an atheist, too. I felt it was weird we were finally having a conversation about this after being married for six years, but maybe we intrinsically knew all along.
In The God Delusion, Dawkins argues that evolution has removed the need for a God hypothesis to explain life, and advances in physics may soon do the same for the universe. Further, the existence of God is a proper question for science, and the answer is no.
Despite the many flashes of brilliance in this book, Dawkins’s failure to appreciate just how hard philosophical questions about religion can be makes reading it an intellectually frustrating experience.
Creationists and believers in God are right to see him as their arch-enemy. In The God Delusion he displays what a formidable adversary he is. It is a spirited and exhilarating read. In the current climate of papal/Islamic stand-off, it is timely too.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
'Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?'
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In Memoriam Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
As a child, my wife hated her school and wished she could leave.
The boy lay prone in the grass, his chin resting on his hands.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
But hate only has to prove it is religious, and it no longer counts as hate.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden.
I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere.
Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, 'sensible' religion may not be doing that. But it is making the world safe for fundamentalism by teaching children, from their earliest years, that unquestioning faith is a virtue.
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
Religion's power to console doesn't make it true.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
Religion & Spirituality.
Nonfiction.
HTML:A preeminent scientist??and the world's most prominent atheist??asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever m
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