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The God delusion
Dawkins, Richard
Adult Nonfiction 211.8 D
Dawkins, Richard
Adult Nonfiction 211.8 D
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| Contents | Page |
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| Preface | p. 1 |
| 1 - A Deeply Religious Non-Believer | p. 9 |
| Deserved respect | p. 11 |
| Undeserved respect | p. 20 |
| 2 - The God Hypothesis | p. 29 |
| Polytheism | p. 32 |
| Monotheism|P37 | |
| Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America | p. 38 |
| The poverty of agnosticism | p. 46 |
| NOMA | p. 54 |
| The Great Prayer Experiment | p. 61 |
| The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists | p. 66 |
| Little green men | p. 69 |
| 3 - Arguments for God"s Existence | p. 75 |
| Thomas Aquinas" "proofs" | p. 77 |
| The ontological argument and other a priori arguments | p. 80 |
| The argument from beauty | p. 86 |
| The argument from personal "experience" | p. 87 |
| The argument from scripture | p. 92 |
| The argument from admired religious scientists | p. 97 |
| Pascal"s Wager | p. 103 |
| Bayesian arguments | p. 105 |
| 4 - Why There Almost Certainly is no God | p. 111 |
| The Ultimate Boeing 747 | p. 113 |
| Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser | p. 114 |
| Irreducible complexity | p. 119 |
| The worship of gaps | p. 125 |
| The anthropic principle: planetary version | p. 134 |
| The anthropic principle: cosmological version | p. 141 |
| An interlude at Cambridge | p. 151 |
| 5 - The Roots of Religion | p. 161 |
| The Darwinian imperative | p. 163 |
| Direct advantages of religion | p. 166 |
| Group selection | p. 169 |
| Religion as a by-product of something else | p. 172 |
| Psychologically primed for religion | p. 179 |
| Tread softly, because you tread on my memes | p. 191 |
| Cargo cults | p. 202 |
| 6 - The Roots of Morality: Why Are we Good? | p. 209 |
| Does our moral sense have a Darwinian origin? | p. 214 |
| A case study in the roots of morality | p. 222 |
| If there is no God, why be good? | p. 226 |
| 7 - The "Good" Book and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist | p. 235 |
| The Old Testament | p. 237 |
| Is the New Testament any better? | p. 250 |
| Love thy neighbour | p. 254 |
| The moral Zeitgeist | p. 262 |
| What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren"t they atheists? | p. 272 |
| 8 - What"s Wrong with Religion? Why be so Hostile? | p. 279 |
| Fundamentalism and the subversion of science | p. 282 |
| The dark side of absolutism | p. 286 |
| Faith and homosexuality | p. 289 |
| Faith and the sanctity of human life | p. 291 |
| The Great Beethoven Fallacy | p. 298 |
| How "moderation" in faith fosters fanaticism | p. 301 |
| 9 - Childhood, Abuse and the Escape from Religion | p. 309 |
| Physical and mental abuse | p. 315 |
| In defence of children | p. 325 |
| An educational scandal | p. 331 |
| Consciousness-raising again | p. 337 |
| Religious education as a part of literary culture | p. 340 |
| 10 - A Much Needed Gap? | p. 345 |
| Binker | p. 347 |
| Consolation | p. 352 |
| Inspiration | p. 360 |
| The mother of all burkas | p. 362 |
| Appendix: A partial list of friendly addresses, for individuals needing support in escaping from religion | p. 375 |
| Books cited or recommended | p. 380 |
| Notes | p. 388 |
| Index | p. 400 |
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