Overview
Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins Darwin's Rottweiler for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques 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. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of intelligent design, or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East-or Middle America.
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Author: Richard Dawkins ,
Richard Dawkins ,
Lalla Ward
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798200144303
Publication Date: 19 January 2007
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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"You needn't buy the total Dawkins package to glory in his having the guts to lay out the evils religions can do.-- ""Kirkus Starred Review"""
Author Information
Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential scientists of our time. The New York Times Book Review has hailed him as a writer who understands the issues so clearly that he forces his reader to understand them too. Recently awarded the distinction of public intellectual in Britain, Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential scientists of our time. The New York Times Book Review has hailed him as a writer who understands the issues so clearly that he forces his reader to understand them too. Recently awarded the distinction of public intellectual in Britain, Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Lalla Ward is an actress and audiobook narrator who is best known for her role as Romana in Doctor Who, a popular BBC television series. She has also appeared in several other television shows, including The Protectors, Quiller, The Professionals, and Hazel. She is the former wife of actor and costar Tom Baker, who played the Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who.
