{"id":324,"date":"2011-10-26T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/the-god-delusion-by-richard-dawkins\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:09:00","slug":"the-god-delusion-by-richard-dawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The God Delusion<\/span><\/div>\n
by Richard Dawkins<\/span><\/div>\n
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Product Details<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
\nPaperback:<\/b> 374 pages<\/div>\n
\nPublisher:<\/b> Houghton Mifflin Company<\/div>\n
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    Point: Belief in any supernatural god is ridiculously unscientific, unhelpful, and dangerous to fellow humans.<\/span><\/div>\n
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    \nPath:\u00a0 <\/span>Chapter 1 – religion has caused lots of problems, but no one is able to talk about it. It is off limits.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
    Chapter 2 – “any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of gradual evolution.”<\/span><\/div>\n
    Chapter 3 – all arguments for God fail<\/span><\/div>\n
    Chapter 4 – Argument from improbability – basically a hyped up version of “Who created God?”<\/span><\/div>\n
    Chapter 5 – Answering from where religion comes – a desire, a placebo, a meme? Who can say?<\/span><\/div>\n
    Chapter 6 – “Then why are we good?” 1. We aren’t. 2. Misfiring nerves.<\/span><\/div>\n
    Chapter 7 – The Bible is horrific in its dealings with others. Do you really want to claim that?<\/span><\/div>\n
    Chapter 8 – fundamentalism (believing the Scriptures of your faith) undercuts science, and therefore is unacceptable<\/span><\/div>\n
    Chapter 9 – it is child abuse to bring up a child in a religious upbringing.<\/span><\/div>\n
    Chapter 10 – If there is a gap in every person that needs to be filled, why fill it with God? Why not science, art, human friendship, humanism, etc.?<\/span><\/div>\n
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    Sources: Websites, critics, current literature.<\/span><\/div>\n
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    Agreement: Religion – as a form of reaching God –\u00a0is dangerous.<\/span><\/div>\n
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    Disagreement: The author is overly infatuated with science. He is caustic and angry. Full of misinterpretations, exaggerations and over generalizations.<\/span><\/div>\n
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    Personal App: Evidence will not argue a person into belief. Only the Holy Spirit can change a heart.<\/span><\/div>\n
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    Stars: .25 out of 5<\/span><\/div>\n
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    I couldn\u2019t stomach most of it.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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