The God delusion / (Record no. 133356)
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| Item number | .D39 2006 |
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| Personal name | Dawkins, Richard, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1941- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The God delusion / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Richard Dawkins. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st Mariner Books ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Boston : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Houghton Mifflin, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 463 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Argues that belief in God is irrational, and describes examples of religion's negative influences on society throughout the centuries, such as war, bigotry, child abuse, and violence. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-448) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | A deeply religious nonbeliever. Deserved respect ; Undeserved respect -- The God hypothesis. Polytheism ; Monotheism ; Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America ; The poverty of agnosticism ; NOMA ; The great prayer experiment ; The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists ; Little green men -- Arguments for God's existence. Thomas Aquinas's "proofs" ; The ontological argument and other a priori arguments ; The argument from beauty ; The argument from personal "experience" ; The argument from Scripture ; The argument from admired religious scientists ; Pascal's wager ; Bayesian arguments -- Why there almost certainly is no God. The ultimate Boeing 747 ; Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser ; Irreducible complexity ; The worship of gaps ; The anthropic principle : planetary version ; The anthropic principle : cosmological version ; An interlude at Cambridge -- The roots of religion. The Darwinian imperative ; Direct advantages of religion ; Group selection ; Religion as a by-product of something else ; Psychologically primed for religion ; Tread softly, because you tread on my memes ; Cargo cults -- The roots of morality : why are we good? Does our moral sense have a Darwinian origin? ; A case study in the roots of morality ; If there is no God, why be good? -- The "good" book and the changing moral Zeitgeist. The Old Testament ; Is the New Testament any better? ; Love thy neighbour ; The moral Zeitgeist ; What about Hitler and Stalin? : weren't they atheists? -- What's wrong with religion? : why be so hostile? Fundamentalism and the subversion of science ; The dark side of absolutism ; Faith and homosexuality ; Faith and the sanctity of human life ; The great Beethoven fallacy ; How "moderation" in faith fosters fanaticism -- Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion. Physical and mental abuse ; In defence of children ; An educational scandal ; Consciousness-raising again ; Religious education as a part of literary culture -- A much needed gap? Binker ; Consolation ; Inspiration ; The mother of all burkas. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Atheism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Religion |
| Form subdivision | Controversial literature. |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Storms Research Center | Storms Research Center | Main Collection | 10/28/2025 | BL 2775.3 .D39 2006 | 98652545 | 10/28/2025 | 27.00 | 10/28/2025 | Book |