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| Bestsellers over the Years : 2006 | | 29 | vpfluke, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: Happy Heathens : Richard Dawkins interview | | 10 | darrow, April 2008 | |
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... of the pages online....very intriguing. Could be an option for your Graphic Novel category. I also see that you've listed The God Delusion - awesome book!! The young ones (books published within the last ten years)
Possibilities:
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
... from this book? Good question! Obviously, I'm just not the targeted readership :)
You also get the feeling, as I did in The God Delusion, that Dawkins is preaching to the choir. Religious fundamentalists will fail to be moved by his arguments. In fact, Dawkins' compassion often gets the ... I believe I recall reading that in Dawkins' The God Delusion, if I'm not mistaken. I must admit, it's a very powerful, not to mention accurate, way of putting it.
I would love to be able to see Dawkins, Dennett, or even Mr. Ray, (although I'm not familiar with his books), give a lecture, but ... Thanks for the review of Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth - it's now on hold at the library. I listened to The God Delusion last spring and grew quite fond of his style. I also really like his letter to his daughter about good and bad reasons for believing in things. It's a bit long, but ... ... Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-1919 to see how it relies on this primary source.
Looks like I'll have to wishlist the Richard Dawkins books after all these recommendations. All year I've been adding books at a much faster rate than I've been reading them!
... this morning on the way to work, in which Dawkins defines his thesis, and how it relates to his previous books.
Like The God Delusion, Dawkins isn't exactly shy in coming forward. Take this excerpt from Chapter 1...
"Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, ... ... to hold their own in an argument about evolution vs. creation. I really hope you both love it as much as I am! I bought The God Delusion last weekend and will try to get to that one soon (although we have just found out we're moving to Switzerland, so reading time is vanishing in favour of ... ... ------------
About to start The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins. I found Dawkin's The God Delusion to be a real treat when I read it last year, so I've been looking forward to his latest. I've yet to read any of Dawkin's earlier works, although a copy of ... I went into one of my favourite bookshops today and came home with Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I was #22 on the waiting list at the library for Wolf Hall and couldn't help buying it. ...
Edited to add: ok, now I've really read your whole thread and I really wish I'd been in here earlier! I might try the God Delusion next. I'm so much slower at science-y books than history books though... Related WSJ discussion between Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574405030643556324.html
And then Albert Mohler's commentary.
http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/mohler/11608516/ ... ter
5. Barefoot - Elin Hilderbrandt
6. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
7. Going Down - Jennifer Belle
8. Delusion - Peter Abrahams
9. Here's the Story - Maureen McCormick
10. Teaser - Jan Brogan
11. Time of My Life - Allison Winn Scotch
12. This One is Mine - Maria ... ... next thread?
dihiba - I have not yet read The Ancestors Tale but full intend to read all the Dawkins books. I thought The God Delusion was great, and I loved his outspoken tone.
Caut - our cabin is on the Saanich Penisula, hidden away on a back road, north of Victoria. I have to be ... The Selfish Gene
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth
All by CRD ... Man covers a lot of the stuff about morality. It's only about 60-odd pages.
The only one of Dawkin's books I've read is The God Delusion. I found many of the quotes inaccurate when I looked up the originals and the arguments sloppy and naive once he strayed outside his professional expertise. ... ...
(Guess I shouldn't be too surprised, as I started that ball rolling by adding reviews for Jefferson.)
Have you read The God Delusion? If the Novak book is an answer to it, I suppose one would want to read it first. ... Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen.. so that will be my read for today after work. At work I am reading a book called God by someone Turian. It is definitely not what I would normally read, but it was written by the sil if a social worker in the bldg...
and she said she thought of me ... ... they replace all those that are current..
Anyway I picked this one from among them as I had t experience of having read "The Dawkins Delusion", I think. It was part of a swap w my mom where she was supposed to have read Sam Harris's. "LETTER to a Christian Nation".
Nothing was ... Dawkins book is called The God Delusion. The theme is that religious belief is a delusion, that is a belief that is not justified because of lack of evidence. The argument 1-5 in #1 is a formal version of the many "lack of evidence" arguments. Examples include, "you don't believe in X, why do you ... ... way
41) A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle
42) Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
43) Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
44) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
45) City of Masks by Mary Hoffman
Books read: 6
Pages read: 2466
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Total books read: 45
Total pages read: 14129
06nwingert in Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in July? (Jul 27, 2009, 3:16pm) My late July/ early August reads include: a reread of some of my favorites, The God Delusion and His Dark Materials, as well as The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Truth and Consequences by Keith Olberman, and Street Art and the War in Iraq. Since I have to go ... 44) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Wow, this is an eye-opener that I think everyone, no matter religion or way of life, should read. I'm currently reading The God Delusion and I'm finding it to be very interesting. ... Card
2. My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor - 7/4
3. Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs - 7/5
4. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - 7/8
5. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card - 7/12
6. Basics Design Layout by Gavin Ambrose - 7/12
7. Musicophilia by Ol ... 13. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
5 stars.
First off, I've meant to write about the layout of books I've been reading but I'm always a bit distracted when writing these reviews.. layout and typography definitely have an effect my enjoyment of any book.
The typographic layout ... finished Exterminator! and My Stroke of Insight! in the last few days.
Seems like this week will include The God Delusion, Emotional Design either the beginning of Musicophilia or Chapter House: Dune 1. The Dawkins Delusion? - by Alister E McGrath and Joanna Colicutt McGrath
2. Sherlock Holmes: the complete illustrated short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
5. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Goes without saying ... ...
200 - God is Not Great - I've been impressed when I've heard Hitchens speak so I expect this will be entertaining
211 - The God Delusion
211 - Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects I've heard Bertrand Russell has a sharply humorous way with words
220 - ... ... and, of course, Borders. I bought 4 pairs of shoes at Kohls and 10 books and 2 CDs at Borders. (Great deals). I bought: The God Delusion (even though I've read it twice), Idiot America: How Stupidity is Becoming a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles Pierce, Mugglenet.com's Harry ... ... olmes
For Crying Out Loud (The World According to Clarkson vol.3) by Jeremy Clarkson
The Complete Wolf by Liz Bomford
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Emma by Jane Austen
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power by Virginia Rounding
Decept ... ... through paleontology,
comparative anatomy, and biology.
Richard Dawkins The Ancestor's Tale Don't worry, it's not The God Delusion :)
The thing that's compelling for me is how independent research and study across a wide
range of disciplines (biology, geology, paleontology, ... ... years), and that a lot of his snappishness comes from frustration that people can be so dismissive of it.
I also liked The God Delusion, but then I've never been the religious type, so I suppose it was preaching to the choir (so to speak). I guess if I'm to be scrupulously intellectually ... ... full, woohoo!), and managed to grab an extra 4 new books from the shelves in about two and a half minutes before I paid:
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Emma by Jane Austen - a shiny pretty new version. :-)
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and P ... ... about your finger - I hope it's all healed up now?
What did you think of The Blind Watchmaker? I just finished Dawkin's The God Delusion a couple weeks ago and thought it was amazing - I'm still mulling everything over, but it has definitely changed my consciousness about religion. ... then the books don't go under atheism anyway.
Exactly - those belong under "biology" and "politics". And books like The God Delusion really do belong here since their topic is religion. I can understand people wanting to put them in a somewhat separate category (instead of something like ... rdurick --Well, I'm agnostoc so it probably won't bother me. I never read the God Delusion although I am familiar with it. I once called myself an athiest, but now that I'm older and a bit more reflective I think of that as an arrogant point of view. Actually, we just don't know, which makes ... ... Club - a pleasant read, and fun to tease out all the parallels to the novels.
Just about done with both Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion on audio (I think I need to read the actual book when I'm done - there's a lot I'm not quite getting) and Life of Pi. I am dying to know what the big "twi ... ... as
26) Essay?
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
27) Short story?
The Nose, Gogol
28) Work of nonfiction?
The God Delusion or The Botany of Desire
29) Who is your favorite writer?
It changes daily, but today I'll nominate P G Wodehouse
30) Who is the most overrated ... ... Impact of the Highly Improbable
The God Delusion
The World is Flat - Brief History of the Twenty-first Century< ... I'm in the middle of listening to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It's quite good although some of the science stuff is a bit heavy to concentrate on while driving. I think I may have to re"read" this later. ... not great by Christopher Hitchens
I made a last 'lunge' at this one last night to finish it off. Compared to The God Delusion, Hitchens felt very rambling, and not altogether as clear and concise as he should have been. Having reflected on it overnight, though I found it ... 5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
If you've read my post above you'll have realised that I've been reading a few books of this nature this year - book begets book as they say, and after reading The God Delusion I was interested to find other books in (what I'll loosely call) ... ... to his scientific discipline"
I know Dawkins has stepped somewhat out of the boundaries of science in his recent 'The God delusion, but otherwise I cannot find anything fundamentalist in his other books such as 'The Blind Watchmaker' or the really marvellous 'The Ancestor's Tale'. T ... ... good! I almost feel like I rushed through it and need to go back and savour it a bit more. I'm also listening to Dawkins' The God Delusion, and just started The Sex Lives of Cannibals last night. It's very entertaining, and a nice break from the other books I've just finished. ... it. However....your review discussing the religious connections has me intrigued. I am currently agnostic, and listening to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and if he has his way I'll be atheist by the end of it. Hmmm........I may have to bump this book up a bit! ... by Stephen King
Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
Homeland by R. A. Salvatore
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Strange Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater ... > 29 Thanks for an interesting and thoughtful post.
By definition, God must be omnibenevolent -- God is the Good, all goodness, perfect goodness, the source of what it means to be "good." God can't do anything "evil" because what "evil" means is that which is contrary to the nature of the Good ... ... what you'll be reading yet? I had picked up An Introduction to Hinduism, as well as The Heart of Islam, and was loaned The God Delusion. I started The God Delusion so far but wasn't impressed (very preachy!), and am reading The Heart of Islam now - I am finding it a bit technical / high ... The God Delusion is on my TBR, but I may skip Then End of Faith in that case. I don't care for bombastic arguments even when I agree with them. Seeing your reviews of all three together and one after the other is quite interesting and helpful. I feel like so many similar books came out in a ... ... recommend this one much.
I have to say though, that it's funny the way things works out. The order in which I read The God Delusion, God is Not Great and The End of Faith was perfect. In my perspective I went from the least offensive to the most in order. I went into the god delusion and atheist, and I came out an atheist, so I guess he didn't make any negative progress. :P I really liked Dawkins' writing, and I will read some more of his stuff in the future. (which is good since most of it is recommended reading for bio majors anyways.) Idk, I ... I've finished Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, and I've started on The God Delusion this week. ... you get mostly non-fiction books (A short history of nearly everything, Gödel Escher Bach, The origin of species, The god delusion) - I don't know if that's evidence of malicious tagging, or just that if enough people have a particular book, someone among them will have tagged it "ficti ... ... by Kurt Vonnegut
February:
3. Homeland by R. A. Salvatore
4. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
March:
6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
April:
7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Strange Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
8. ... Finished The God Delusion yesterday. I rather enjoyed it. While I can see some of the points the detractors make, I still think Dawkins makes some pretty strong points. Yes, some of the stuff he attacks are straw men, but on the whole his perception of religious beliefs is pretty similar to ... From The God Delusion:
tergiversation - derivative of tergiversate
tergiversate:
1. equivocate
2. change one's loyalties ... and Asia, the Ackerley is certainly worth a go.
And if you are an atheist and liked (or in my case just plain LOVED) The God Delusion you will get reinforcement reading Doubt. Well, I just finished reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. The quality was about where I had initially estimated it: rather low, with a couple very good spots and even more startlingly bad points. That raises my total to seven, and I may be able to get another done by the end of Janu ... 12. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins; Dawkins has such a reputation for being aggressive, but I didn't really find that in this book - passionate, yes, but not aggressive. He has a very elegant writing style, and I'm going to have to read some of his other books now. For 'non-believers' (as Bar ... ... easy vampire romance chick lit book. And as I'm simultaneously reading Marilynne Robinson's Home and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, I need fluffy literary snacks in between. ... him?
Fine. *sigh* But you all owe me a bag of gummi bears each. Or sour patch kids. I'm not picky.
I have read the God Delusion but I haven't read Saving Fish From Drowning. I read The God Delusion but I haven't read Apocalypse Pretty Soon. Yay - I've read a Tale of Two Cities (it took forever), but I haven't read The God Delusion. I ended up reading The Working Poor first on my list. Sad, but I am certainly glad I read it.
I'm now diving in to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Fascinating. I love his sense of humor.
I read Why They Kill and thought that was an interesting read, too. I can't remember any ... Finishing up The God Delusion within the next day or two, and then reading Revolutionary Characters which I read excerpts of for one of my courses and remember thoroughly enjoying them. Never got around to reading the entire book, but this week should give me the chance. ... Nisbett
2. Proust and the Squid by M. Wolf -- how the brain learned to read
3. It Takes a Genome by Greg Gibson
4. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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8.
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7. Essays or Poetry
1. Transformations by Anne Sexton
2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (read ... A little more than halfway through The God Delusion, and next on my list will probably be Revolutionary Characters or finish up 1491. ... by Stephen Trzaskoma; (2) the complete works of Menno Simons; (3) Articles of Faith by James E. Talmage; (4) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins; and (5) From the Maccabees to the Mishnah by Shaye J. D. Cohen. ...
Alice in Wonderland
Twlight
Frostbite
New Moon
Eclipse
Audacity of Hope
Letter to a Christian Nation
*God Delusion
Charlie Bone and the Shadow
*Da Vinci Code (audio version)
*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone( both audio version and 10 year anniversary edition)
... ... Nhat Hanh - Simple ways to live and appreciate each individual moment and, in general, to live a more meaningful life.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - Wish I had thought of these smart arguments myself.
... and Why It Matters by Bill Tancer
100 Brief History of the Paradox by Roy Sorensen--Finished
200 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
300 Brown: Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez
400
600 Cable: Wire that Changed the World by Gillian Cookson
700 ... >10
I really liked The God Delusion, but Dawkins was preaching to the choir in my case.
Mysteries of the Middle Ages sounds intriguing. *Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
*The God Delusion
*Do You Speak American?
*Letter to a Christian Nation
*I Am America (And So Can You!) (borderline fiction/nonfiction)
*The Physics of Star Trek
*Classical Mythology
*The Christian World: A Global History
*Cannib ... ... in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Non Fiction (no particular oder)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Deadly Persuasion by Jean Kilbourne
Worst reads - Fiction (worst first)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ... ... Dickens
2 – The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexander Dumas
3 - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4 - The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
5 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ellevee in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today?--December 2008 #2 (Dec 26, 2008, 4:33pm) ... Atkinson
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
And all for under $50! ... of time:
Neener, Neener, Cheaterpants
1. The Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon
2. Delusion by Peter Abrahams
3. The Cure for Modern Life by Lisa Tucker
4. Bookends by Jane Green
5. The ... ... of Pi by Yann Martel, ★★★★1/2 (5/4)
18. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, ★★★★ (5/7)
19. The God Delusion (Audio) by Richard Dawkin, ★★★★1/2 (5/11)
20. The Yellow Wallpaper (Short Story) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ★★★★ (5/12)
21. T ... ... God is Not Great and was so enthralled with it that he kept reading passages to me.
I'll see if I can obtain a copy of The God Delusion for him.
All good wishes for a happy and healthy 2009!
Thanks Whisper!
Happy Holidays to you too, and all the 75ers!
If you have read my comments on God is Not Great and The God Delusion you'll know I'm not religious but I am all for celebrating the pagan ritual of the winter solstice. And it is certainly winter-solsticing out there in this ... ... for me:
Classics - Pride and Prejudice, Crime and Punishment, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Nonfiction - The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, The Vertigo Years by Philipp Blom, The Slave Ships by Marcus Rediker (touchstones not working)
Memoir - The Smoking ... Child:
Am reading Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell, The Birth of Christianity by John Dominic Crossan, and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins...Interesting mix, no? Am trying to get my thesis done sometime in this century as I work FT and have just moved to west coast...
Pu ... ... by Mur Lafferty
Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
Tideline by Elizabeth Bear (short story)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Star Trek: New Worlds, New Civilizations by Michael Jan Freidman
7th Son by J.C. Hutchens
The Zombie Survival G ... ... argument to calculate the probability of the existence of God. Richard Dawkins mentioned it (negatively) in the God Delusion.
I thought it might provide some insight into why various pieces of evidence get interpreted differently by the two sides in the debate and why all this ... 88.The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Excellent, rational and crystal clear. Covers all the bases and scrapes ... About a third of the way through The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins - great stuff! ... news sites . . . Yikes!
So this book is one I've been reading off and on for months and I finally finished.
16. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
This was a very dense and slow-going read, but definitely fascinating. Although there are areas of disagreement, I appreciate Scienc ... #266 Hi saxhorn
1. Sorry, I'm not able to make out the meaning of your point #1.
In Mark 13:29-30, Jesus says "when you see these things taking place, you know that he (or it) is near, at the very gates. Truly I tell you, this generation shall not pass away until *all these things* have ... I read Hitchens after reading The God Delusion and The End of Faith. I had heard that he was more "hardcore" then either Dawkins or Harris. I found that not to be the case, he seemed to be the most reasonable of the three. I think it was worth reading, although I don't think it's going to ... A review of my shelves jogged my memory; I have also read the following books this year:
25. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
26. God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
27. Shakespeare: The World As Stage, Bill Bryson
28. The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
29. Commo ... The God Delusion?
Recently finished Richard Dawkin's best-seller: The god delusion and I highly recommend it to all of you here.
In fact, perhaps I should start a different thread about other people's experiences with acceptance or non-acceptance of Humanists (or, er (get out the tomatoes) "Atheist ... I've just picked up The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins to read whilst I'm on holiday. Whilst I don't really take Dawkins seriously, and I am a theist (that is "a theist" not "atheist") it'll be interesting to read his point of view - I do hope he goes off on a rant regularly in the book!
I'll ... The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The God Squad by Paddy Doyle
The Savage God by A Alvarez
May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast Tony Parker ... atheists (discussed on another thread), I was kind of angry about it. Who does this guy think he is? (I like Dawkins book The god delusion for example). But, now listening to you guys, you really do sound like the fundamentalists. Of course, fundamentalists tell me I go to hell, which is worse. ... ... the World with Words by John Man (we had a chuckle about the fact that this guy really IS Mr. Man)
And Mr. Man got The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Then a visit to our favorite Indian food restaurant, homeward, and bedward. Night all! I am in the middle of reading The God Delusion and even while I'm agreeing with just about everything he's saying I'm thinking 'This Dawkins is a know-it-all putz.' I appreciate that he and Harris and Hitchens are out there on the front-line, but sheesh. Can't they be a little less offensive? Actu ... ... ond
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
Zodiac ... ... idiosyncratic take on things mystic, psychic and dependant on belief. (A lot more entertaining than Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion for example.)
Thanks to dchaikin for a neat graph of the growth here - though my sense is that it's grown ... ... sway the algorithm in my favour. (Or maybe having a bunch of Dawkins is a good match for Hitchens, even though only The God Delusion pertains to the subject.) Swordmage - my June ER book
The God Delusion
The White Mary Swordmage - my June ER book
The God Delusion
The White Mary Just read: The God Delusion
Currently reading: The Portable Atheist
On deck: Catch-22 ... of Jesus: Uncovering the Life by Borg was also interesting--changed my view on the Gospels. I'd be curious to know how God Delusion is... 211 Concepts of God The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins I finished my ER book, Swordmage, last night and I'll finish The God Delusion this evening. I think Do You Speak American? will be next in line. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. So far so good! #240 - Oh flee, how is The God Delusion so far? And who is it read by? The God Delusion on the iPod
On the Origin of Species in email from DailyLit
Baseball Between the Numbers in the bathroom.
I haven't yet decided on my living room/bedroom book. Popped The God Delusion onto my iPod this morning to listen to while I mowed the lawn. ... quality literature is what prevents me from enjoying these books. I had thought it would be something to do with books like The God Delusion but that one doesn't show up on a single one of my "Why?" lists.
I found God is Not Great very compelling - I also read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins this year and I must say they are two books that have changed my thinking - in that they gave some focus to what I obviously really believed. I do find well thought out logic hard to argue with. There ... ... my computer then being reading by 10:30 and finish by 12:30 am the following morning. I'm currently reading Twilight, The God Delusion, and Aeschylus' The Orestes Plays. I also watch t.v. (MLB/ NBA playoffs) while reading. I generally read 2 chapters per book, watch 15 minutes of t.v., ... ... his religious son, as a way to present his ideas without being dogmatic.
Other books touching on the same subject are The God Delusion by Hawkins and the Christopher Hitchens book - neither of which I have read.
I liked the fact that Wolpert touches on more than religion - he discussed ... ... to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News by Roger Mudd. I'm taking home one for my husband, Delusion by Peter Abrahams, and he tells me there's a UPS package waiting at home! Now that's a good day. >2 OF COURSE God can knit! The Psalmist specifically says "You (God) knit me together in my mother's womb."
So now you know. #36 Richard Dawkins writes about the connection between evolution and religion in The God delusion. He says humans are basically programmed to believe what authorative figures (parents, elders, politicians) tell them, because it is a quicker way to learn than through experience. You don't have to ... #6^
If you're willing to part with The God Delusion, I would be happy to receive it. I have been wishing for a while...
Something that might show up at book sales that I've been wishing for is Secrets in the Shadows by V.C. Andrews.
Something I've had on my list since the beginning that' ... ... every format known to mankind and it's not OOP, yet I can't find it. Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones.
#3 - Darn, I have the god delusion by Dawkins, close, so close. :)
I'm buying ANY Austen book I see at library sales!
... and Legends the other day and debating picking it up. Sounds promising- golem are so fascinating! Once I'm done with The God Delusion I hope to pick up Letters to a Christian Nation too- I think you're about two books ahead of my on the Atheist Syllabus! ... them. I'm not sure whether this is only an exercise in ego for keen readers but what the hell.
Carpentaria
stiff
the god delusion
a book of short stories by ethan cohen (the movie guy) I can't remember the name of and don't have in front of me
Catch 22 for about the hundredth time
... ... Invention of Hugo Cabret for $11.50! Score!
I also weakened and ordered a few books from Amazon- an on-sale copy of The God Delusion, which I'm currently reading but the library wants its copy back, Don't Know Much About History- the US one (I use it when I tutor US history- a fun read ... ... foolish. I know Dawkins isn't a physicist or a biblical scholar, but he should know well enough that writing a book like The God Delusion is going to attract the kind of questions it does and it would behoove him to better prepare for that instead of relying on making people look foolish and ... >9
That's a nifty idea. My Top 5 for 2006 looks like this:
The God delusion by Richard Dawkins - TBR
Artemis Fowl : the lost colony by Eoin Colfer - son's book
Predator by Patricia Cornwell - former airport purchase, given to me to put on BookMooch
Letter to a Christi ... ... weirdly wonderful; I'm not sure that I understood any of it but it was compulsive reading. Finished Richard Dawkins The God Delusion too, I think I agree with him . . . but got a bit lost towards the end. I''ve not quite completed Simon Scarrow's Young Bloods, the first of his Napol ... ... Bob Woodward 653 copies
3. The Innocent Man: Murder and Justice in a Small Town, John Gresham 961 copies
4. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins 3,837 copies
5. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket 2,780 copies
6. For One More Day, Mitch Albom 1,340 ... ... I am half way through, but I've been there for a few years, I think I just got bored.
#1 Greyhead - With regards to God Delusion, I didn't finish it for just that reason. It was good at the beginning, then I felt it sort just said the same thing over and over, which I know is the point ... 17. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Steamed through this one - it's an extraordinary book, and incredibly readable too. ... The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, weirdly wonderful. Still dipping in and out of Richard Dawkins The God Delusion, not as gripped as I was for the first half. Hence I've diverted into Kevin Kelly's New Rules for the New Economy, which feels a bit dated ten years ... ... but by boyfriend grew up in the US and the book would probably interest him. I know there are allusions to this subject in The God Delusion which we have both read (i.e. that despite the history of the US colonies founded on religious principles, the country itself was not established that way, ... So I kind of flaked on The God Delusion- I think I'm still feeling too frazzled for anything more than light reading. At least the library's letting me keep it for a while longer. In the meantime-
44. The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde
Pregnant, missing a husband, and on the ... Ironic but awesome: I bought The God Delusion at the Karachi airport in Pakistan. 25: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
reread
I love Richard Dawkins. Seriously. He's quite excellent. I've got this book signed; and of course I managed to say absolutely nothing intelligent when I got to the front of the line, nothing like "I read The Blind Watchmaker when I was 13 ... ... of work by R J Ellory after a slow start he had my tuning pages much later than I had intended. I've also been reading The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins latest, also surprisingly readable - and much that I agree with. The God Delusion's a good one; I've only just finished it, and so haven't got the review up (Al Gore distracted me), but probably my review will be about my making a slight prat of myself when getting the book signed, not my actual opinion. My actual opinion? The book is quite good. You could ... ... it leak into my posts about books by Al Gore.
Finished; to be posted: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, L. Frank Baum; The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins; An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore ... of being
20 Death in venice
various
21. Waiting for Godot
22. Hamlet
23. The diary of Anne Frank
24. The god delusion
25. If this is a man
... of being
20 Death in venice
various
21. Waiting for Godot
22. Hamlet
23. The diary of Anne Frank
24. The god delusion
25. If this is a man
I made a list of 25 books (it is not a top 25), hope that's ok. I saw the suggestion of doing 25 instead of 10, only later did I ... ... The Dubliners and The Death and Life of Great American Cities though both are sort of on hold. I may start in on The God Delusion soon too, since I have that from the library and it keeps getting requested by others, which makes me unable to renew. Downside of the library. ... William Goldman,
Stoner by John Williams,
No country for old men & The Road by Cormac McCarthy and also The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
On top of those i recieved in the post a UK first edition of Cities Of The Red Night by Burroughs from ebay, and Postmodern ... ... article or another about 'domestic fiction' which, of course, is usually considered a woman writer's domain.
I enjoyed The God Delusion also although I thought it got a bit repetitive in parts. ... will get back to it next week. And for comic relief - literally - Psmith Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse.
I finished The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins last night - brilliant. 31. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Brilliant, thought-provoking. Still reading Larry's Party by Carol Shields and enjoying it a lot.
Started The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins over the weekend - very thought-provoking and readable. God by Jack Miles
Money by Martin Amis
London by A.N. Wilson
Success by Martin Amis
Jesus by A.N. Wilson
Fiasco by Thomas Ricks
Cosmos by Carl Sagan ... from my TBR pile:
210 Natural theology
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
211 Concepts of God
The God Delusion
274 Christian church in Europe
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
277 Christian church in Nor ... ... by Peter Luther
19.Medieval Justice; Cases and Laws in France, England and Germany, 500-1500 by Hunt Janin
20.Dawkins' God by Alistair McGrath
21.A Walk in the Dark Ages by Frank Delaney
22.The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
23.The Whig Interpretatio ... The God Delusion and Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon have both been recommended to me, but I have not read them myself yet.
Sam Harris has a list of recommended books here: http://www.samharris.org/site/book_reading_list/ ... whatever their little hearts desire.
The thing is, I would never expect to walk into a Christian bookstore and pick up The God Delusion. But a site where they purposely drop books they carried at one point by encouraging their users to vote them down strikes me as yucky.
Seeing a ... ... like I wasn't in the mood for it or something. However, I would be much more likely to recommend this to someone than, say, The God delusion or God is not great. Not that I see myself needing to recommend it to anyone really.
2. Laika by Nick Abadzis
So this was my first graphic ... Started The year of Living Biblically, and liking it. Still reading The god Delusion. Its interesting reading both at the same time as they are sort of opposites. One is about god in daily life the other trying to prove the absence of one. The same type of examples being spun in different ... ... error: Call to undefined function isISBN() in /var/www/html/bookservices.php on line 16"
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Thank you. I'm about half way through The God Delusion with The year of living biblically waiting. #2 & #7 glad to hear Cryptonomicon is worth the read. It's been sitting on my shelf for a year or so, mocking me, I might try and tackle it this year.
#22 and #26 RE-reading Jonathan Strange yikes! It ... ... Books
The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Alli
The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
In the Beginning by Karen Armstrong
Islam by ... ... Living Biblically from the library and am glad to hear I'll be laughing. Not much laughing in Into the Wild. I also have The God Delusion waiting. Hmm, I see a "religious" theme here. ... am now just starting Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. I loved Into Thin Air and can't wait to get into this one. I have The god Delusion waiting in the wings. ... to allow the theocrats in our midst to seize the power they so deeply desire.
By the way ... I finally have my review of The God Delusion up ... you can check that out HERE.
I have just started Run by Ann Patchett, with Into the Wild and The God Delusion in the wings.
Why do all library books that you have on hold always seem to come in at the same time? I see lots of reading over the break or lots of fines at the library. I hope they are worth it. ... I really didn't pay attention to Philip Pullman (though I knew of his books) until I caught his blurb on the cover of The God Delusion. Once I heard His Dark Materials described as the atheist Narnia I went out and bought all three books. (Sadly they are still on the TBR pile...) ... would have the domestic policy of Ron Paul, the foreign policy of Ronald Reagan, and the religious convictions of Richard Dawkins.
... it, but no one has mentioned the most obvious explanation of all for the biblical "virgin" myth. As Dawkin's states in The God Delusion, it was a miss-translation of "young women". ... couldn't really help but look good, standing next to some of the people these programmes required him to stand next to.
The God Delusion is the only one of his books I've read, though, and I definitely didn't warm to his personality there. Hehe. My local Borders is selling a special edition of The God Delusion complete with a Xmas card. The card says: "Come All Ye Faithless" :o) ... you'll see that I've got a huge number of books on Christianity, from the bible, to Lee Stroebel's The Case for Christ to The God Delusion, and beyond, to things like Elvis and the Apocalypse. I'm happy to engage in thoughtful and respectful discussion, and I'm sure others here feel the ... ... the anti-Da Vinci Code books.
Next there will be all the anti-Golden Compass books
Why not anti-Richard Dawkins God Delusion books
Should be for some "fun" reading.
Dawkins Delusion by Alister E. McGrath
I see that 80 members have this book, but vanoudt does not seem to be one of them.
I think that your recommending the book is fair, and that some of the responses to you post are more abusive than your original post. Having said that, I think it ... ... Christopher Spranger's The Comedy of Agony: A Book of Poisonous Contemplations which I suspect resonated with the Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris books (among others) already in my library!
... undermine the War on Terror by Richard Miniter
:) Just kidding, tropics.
Three most interesting books were really:
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Passage by Connie Willis
and (sorry)...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling (Don't know why this ... The God Delusion!
The Dive From Clausen's Pier might be good because people may have very different opinions regarding the main character's decision(s).
What Was She Thinking? deals with a teacher who sleeps with one of her students.
Lolita because of the subject matter and how ... ... be counterproductive. I agree with #1, Christians need not be afraid of books that challenge their beliefs and worldview (God Delusion anyone?), but to engage with it, keeping in mind whether it's age-appropriate, of course. After all, if Christianity is true, why should it be afraid of fair-mi ... The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 59. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins pp 347
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has reasoned their way out of church on more then one occasion or started a fight about evolution in religious education.
So I got a little off track this month. Personally, I blame the Red Sox, ... ... up now, but on another thread a few seconds ago didn't.
Title Touchstone Test (that didn't work on the other thread): The God Delusion
Weird. ... Ligotti's work. It was ok. I think a lot of the narrative thread was lost between the story and graphic form.
Started The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins while waiting for more horror books to come in.
... on hand. My wishlist is an entirely different monster. :)
001 Knowledge The Illuminati Papers
211 Concepts of God The God Delusion
277 Christian church in North America Letter to a Christian Nation
301 Sociology & anthropology Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures
305 So ... Hope you don't mind, I'm going to go off on the defensive. Sorry if I sound arrogant to anyone.
I remember the part of The God Delusion which discussed a meta-analysis of studies relating to the negative correlation between religiosity and intelligence. Analyzing 43 studies, Paul Bell found ... ... a British diplomat's year spent governing an Iraqi proving. Very funny, very depressing and very enlightening. Read it!
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Certainly thought-provoking. I don't personally believe Dawkins is quite as rational and all-knowing as he thinks he is, but I would ... Call me tacky, but I'm waiting for the paperback edition of God Is Not Great.
The only reason I have The God Delusion is that my wife gave it to me as a gift...
It is nice to be able to agree with Christopher Hitchens again. Right now, it is just an accident of finances that I have not purchased God is not great. I have read God delusion and Breaking the spell and End of Faith, but I do not think I have entered all 3 into LibraryThing yet.
Often, I am a little slow in absorbing what I read. I feel a fairly ... ... Perhaps it is only a matter of taste, but I found it far more interesting than Letter to a Christian nationor even The God delusion. If you have not overindulged on atheist literature, I certainly recommended the book to all of the members of this group. ... at the moment...
*takes a deep breath*
The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
... nbeck.
Those books have shaped my political conscience more than anything else I've read.
Also highly recommended is The God Delusion. It's amazing the way that our current administration has convinced people to vote againt their own self interest by invoking religion. ... the list of shared books doesn't suggest a random crowd of atheists. If I understand it correctly, 20 of 43 people have The God Delusion. Looking at other groups, it is no surprise that a high proportion of fantasy readers have The Hobbit or members of Hogwarts Express have HP books. I ... I'm surprised nobody's recommended Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion. I just finished reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, which I loved (I was already on his side before I started it, but I found it thought-provoking nevertheless and there were parts of his argument that had me thinking, 'No, that's a step too far'. I'd like to read it again at some ... Personally, I'm a huge fan of Professor Dawkins and his writing. I found The God Delusion to be useful as a set of tools for intellectual combat against irrational beliefs. That said, I find that it is not his best work. I would recommend Unweaving the Rainbow as a gentler and better written ... #55-
I did enjoy The God Delusion even if a lot of the contents were repeated from earlier Dawkins books which is why I checked it out from the library instead of plunked down cash for it. Checking the LT numbers for the book, I find it interesting that there are already more copies of this ... ... and changes his/her opinion about the matter. So many of these books seem like preaching to the choir.
Are you enjoying The God Delusion?
>53, I think that is a really good assessment of the situation, but I always get shouted down when I bring that point up in conversation. :) I'm about halfway through The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Here's my thoughts on these kind of books. Publishers love them whether they are pro or con on the existence of God or gods. The debate has been going on since humans learned their larynxes could warble forth words. Line up the ... The God Delusion
Letter to a Christian Nation
Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures
Fingerprints of the Gods
Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor
Great World Religions: Judaism
The World of Byzantium
Classical Mythology
My Favorite Universe
This is only a ... ... Almost French : a new life in Paris
3. War (Oxford Readers)
4. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
5. The God Delusion
6. Voltaire's Bastards
7. The longest decade
8. The Best Australian Essays 2006
9. Madame Bovary, C'est Moi: The Great Characters of Literature ... There has been a wave of God is Bad books lately---I read The God Delusion, and despite how much I enjoy anti-religious anything, I found myself skipping whole chapters. The author sets up logical proofs about there not being a God and goes systematically down the list, discount the most common ... Oh, and I've just picked up a copy of The God Delusion, the number one Happy Heathens book ;-) 20. God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
I enjoyed this one better than The God Delusion. My favorite chapter was "The Resistance of the Rational" where he talks about those how were or leaned towards atheism in the past.
Currently reading:
Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan ... as regarded by those who do.
--Concise OED 11th edition
Yup, sounds like me alright. Hello. I haven't read The God Delusion yet, but now that it's out in paperback, I guess I really don't have any choice not to, right?
Oh, and churchsigngenerator.com is so much fun :-D ...
Currently reading:
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
sussabmax - I am enjoying this book better than I did The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Some new viewpoints on religion to make me ponder.
Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan ... - Trouern-Trend
2. Babylon By Bus - Lemoine & Newman
3. Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Republic - Johnson
4. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
5. Drop City - Boyle
6. Attack Poodles & Other Media Mutants - Wolcott
7. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq - Ricks ... ...
The life and Times of the Thunderbolt kid by Bill Bryson
Chart throb by Ben Elton (half price - not in the 3 for 2)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Tescopoly by Andrew Simms
Might be a while until I get round to reading them as the TBR pile is quite large
Akiyama-
Have you read The God Delusion? The sentence you quote is essentially his thesis statement. Dawkin's argument is that believers of any stripe are in a metaphysical boat all by themselves, left to argue over the primacy of their beliefs. 'Moderates' give unwitting cover to the ... ... of earnest searching I wish I had.
And recently, the TV documentary "Root of All Evil" by Richard Dawkins, based on The God Delusion, for showing me that Christian fundamentalists aren't the only people who can be profoundly certain and profoundly ignorant at the same time. And, that ... I'm just starting The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. ... both make strong arguments for it in somewhat different ways.
Last year I attended a book talk that Dawkins gave on The God Delusion and it was little more than a vitriolic attack on the scriptures and on religious belief without little if any science or reasoned arguments to add to the ... ... Southern Comforts
18. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
19. Dixie Lullaby
20. Under the Banner of Heaven
21. The God Delusion
I know I have read a few more then this 21 since the 1st, but it makes a good list so far...
28 Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) 734 pages
29 Dawkins, Richard The God Delusion 416 pages
30 Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) 896 pages
... Dawkin's early work such as the selfish gene are pretty good. I've been told he kind of went off on a rant on God delusion.
Sounds like Hitchins who I've not heard of before has managed to be more coherrent.
#2 - "A review (I'll be kind enough not to give the source)" Is that ... ... However, I do think it is important enough to spend more time than I can afford doing it. Why?
Because of books like The God Delusion. If we start dismissing the parts we don't like as myths, where does it stop? And I agree with you that it must stop at the resurrection, to me that is the ... How did you like The God Delusion?
... by Bertrand Russell
4.) Critiques of God edited by Peter A. Angeles
5.) The End of Faith by Sam Harris
6.) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (though I generally do not prefer him due to his radical atheist agenda)
7.) Natural Atheism by David Eller
8.) Letter to a Christia ... The God Delusion I'm moving back and forth between The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Republic by Chalmers Johnson, both requiring considerable thought and reflection. I haven't read The God Delusion or any of the other books by Dawkins, so I'm a little puzzled.
Can someone please tell me whether his nonbelief in a divinity (=atheism) is solely or primarily based upon his opinions about evolution? ... book I'm gonna get first. This year he came out with a 96 page book called "The Dawkins Delusion" specifically addressing The God Delusion, and has a longer version of it called "The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine" coming out in the summer. ... now I have to (1) finish Elantris, (2) read How Doctors Think before a medical consult on Monday (3) start and finish The God Delusion for my men's book club, and (4) read Letters to a Christian Nation before it is overdue from the library... THEN I can read some Tolkien. ... Ray Bradbury
2. Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower by Zbigniew Brzezinski
3. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
4. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
5. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
6. Kitty Goes to Washington by Carr ... ... this thread’s topic ;-). There is a good article in the Nov 2006 issue of WIRED on the New Atheists (Richard Dawkins The God Delusion, Sam Harris The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell, etc.). They believe that it is wrong to ... ... preachy, but as the group’s top 3 commonly shared books are by him, I will assume we agree with him at least a bit.) In The God Delusion he writes, “Either he (god) exists or he doesn’t. It is a scientific question ... In the history of ideas, there are examples of questions being ... ... author. Standard combing practise I thought. Has anyone added a Disambiguation notice?
I'm sure Harry Potter or the God delusion will get the same treatment someday.
I agree completely about Dawkins's flippancy. Before reading The God Delusion, I'd actually listened to him & his wife reading it on an audible.com download. Although I think he's done a great service in putting a lot of the arguments against religion together in one place, I found the ... Thought we might start with a discussion of The God Delusion. >scrumping apples
Isn't that pleonastic? :)
Uncannily, I just read the "scrumping" footnote in "The God delusion". ... country.
Meantime I recently read Maus by Art Spiegelman, just the first installment, and also made a start on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins at my mum's house over the weekend but she was in the middle of it so I couldn't exactly steal it. ... and the atheist position in a clear, understandable way.
Other texts including Atheism: The Case Against God and The God Delusion have helped me piece together a coherent personal position on religion, belief and superstition, and prompted membership to the (British) National Secular S ... ... Smith
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Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne *
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Winterwood - Patrick McCabe
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
Q&A - Vikas Swarup
Terrorist - John Updik ... My Challenge is targeted towards non-fiction, since I read not nearly enough of that stuff. I am taking recommendations.
The God Delusion and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Science and Nonbelief (Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion) by Taner Edis
Apology and Crito of Plat ... Have a look at the reviews of the god delusion here on librarything. Some of them are very sad/funny. Funny in their breathtaking somersaults performed to allow them to agree with bits of the book which are negative about Islam and then disagree with the bits which are negative about their own ... ... reviews seem to be cookie-cutter: quick pass over The End of Faith and Breaking the Spell, then longer criticism of The God Delusion for not being The Miracle of Theism, but without actually mentioning Mackie. ... devalues the conversation by injecting the false Left/ Right paradigm into it."
Yes I agree - his review of the god delusion is quite sad/funny in the same kind of way. I comment on it in my own review of that book.
Lets get back to the topic at hand then.
Why not get down ... My kids got me Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, A Devil's Chaplain, and The God Delusion ... and I'd only asked for the latter!
... Dawkins at Randolph College (nee Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; http://www.rmwc.edu/) in November 2006. He read from The God Delusion. It was a fascinating program, especially when he took questions from the audience, which included many folks from nearby Liberty University (http://www.lib ... ... and I'm going to read it after she finishes with it, The Book Of Origins - The First Of Everything From Art To Zoos, The God Delusion - I've read mixed views on this so I really need to read it for myself, A Child's Christmas In Wales - a lovely edition illustrated by Edward Ardizzone ... booklifeozarks #5. Well, my husband was responsible for leaving The God Delusion in there, which is where I found it. It moved to his side of the bed for a while, then downstairs to show my daughter and back upstairs again (she has her own copy now). Did you fear that we flushed it?
The master ... ... World but what usually actually gets read in there is whatever I'm reading at the moment I enter.
avaland, why did the The God Delusion leave yours? Was it for more sustained reading or? ... as physics moved to biology, I started reading Dawkins which got me reading philosophy of Atheism, including his new The God Delusion and Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation. I've just started Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett, which is more about whether or not we ... The God Delusion the ultimate in applied biology Oh, and I just bought Richard Dawkins's the God Delusion. Can't wait to read it. ... it strange you see, that you seem to proclaim yourself uninterested in religion yet are apparently both reading a book, The God Delusion about it and engaging in this disscusion of religion.
I don't really think it is possible for humanity as a whole to be nonreligious rather I suspect ... I'm currently reading The God Delusion as well, although I'm kind of monitoring my reading because I think the book lacks intellectual rigor, to say the least, and if I read too much in one sitting, I'll throw the book at the wall.
I can give you my concerns/criticisms so far, if you're ... ... I've read The Blind Watchmaker but don't yet have a copy of it. To be honest, I went into the bookstore looking for The God Delusion, but this just caught my eye. I foresee further purchases of Mr. Dawkins in the future! And I'm glad to hear you both enjoyed it. I was surprised to see The God Delusion is no. 1 on the UK Amazon best-sellers list; perhaps even more surprising it is no. 9 on the US list ... of them check out a congregation in your area. I would recommend Dawkins and am currently on the waiting list for the God Delusion. I also just finished Sam Harris book End of Faith
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Amylphil ... to imagine, it is, in fact, the complete antipode to life in America!
I am almost finished with the first half of the The God Delusion, and have really enjoyed it so far; as allsorts states though, perhaps the first half is the best part of the book--I shall know soon enough.
On one ... Jargoneer, I agree with you about Dawkins. I've just finished the God Delusion. The first half of the book where he examines the philosophical arguments for God, and the awful nature of Yahweh in the Bible, is terrific. It's when he goes on to effectively blame all the sins of the world on ... Dawkins does address your trio of horror in The God Delusion. Hitler was anti-religion at times, but also seemed very catholic at other times.The other two espoused socio-economic policies that resulted in their actions - they did not perform their atrocities in the name of atheism.
He also ... Just finishing The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and I think I'm going to read Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl next. Well, I am Dawkins' target audience, and it worked on me! Although I am not done reading it, The God Delusion has already made me rethink calling myself an agnostic.
I had always stuck with the term agnostic because I had held to the argument that we can never prove, incontrovertibly, ... princemuchao, thanks for recommending The God Delusion. I'll have to put it on my "to read" list. I'm more of an agnostic than an atheist, but I refuse to believe in any so-called God whose morals are inferior to my own! That is my big stumbling block with institutionalized religion in this ... ... Harris’ book, its biggest problem is that it doesn’t go into much depth, but I still liked it a lot. I just started The God Delusion last night, and so far, it is fantastic! (I found it interesting that as early as the preface Dawkins--like our own European members in the posts above- ... ... least that's how I remember it. I love Dawkin's work. Currently reading Unweaving the Rainbow and am looking forward to The God Delusion.
margad: I'm about halfway through The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and Chapters 6 & 7 are all about morality and how it does not depend on religion.
Dawkins refers to the Christians who cannot imagine morality without a god, and asks if that sort of person is really a moral person. He ... ... by Daniel C. Dennett, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris, and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
The notes and bibilographies in these books ought to lead you to many other useful texts. Reading about The God Delusion online, it sounds good. Sometimes though, with a book like this, there is the chance that the author will not include much substance, and rely on controversy to sell books. However, from what little I know about Dawkins, I think it has the potential to be great! ... I'm looking forward to The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' next book. Just thought I'd mention the book in case anyone is interested. ... beliefs.
I'm not sure if everyone here has heard or not, but Richard Dawkins has a new book coming out soon, The God Delusion.
I am sure it will be good and straight to the point. I appreciate him sticking to his guns, and being an athiest, I agree with him. However, I hope ...
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