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The Selfish Gene The Extended Phenotype The Blind Watchmaker River Out of Eden Climbing Mount Improbable Unweaving the Rainbow A Devil's Chaplain The Ancestor's Tale
THE GOD DELUSION
Richard Dawkins
TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London W5 5SA a division of The Random House Group Ltd RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA (PTY) LTD 20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point,Sydney, New South Wales 2061, Australia RANDOM HOUSE NEW ZEALAND LTD 18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland 10, New Zealand RANDOM HOUSE SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD Isle of Houghton, Corner of Boundary Road &c Carse O'Gowrie, Houghton 2198, South Africa RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED 301 World Trade Tower, Hotel Intercontinental Grand Complex, Barakhamba Lane, New Delhi 110 001, IndiaPublished 2006 by Bantam Press a division of Transworld Publishers Copyright © Richard Dawkins 2006 The right of Richard Dawkins to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 9780593055489 (from Jan 07) ISBN 0593055489 ISBN9780593058251 (tpb from Jan 07) ISBN 0593058259 (tpb) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Typeset in ll/14pt Sabon by Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd. Printed and bound in Great Britain byWilliam Clowes Ltd, Beccles, Suffolk 5 791134
Papers used by Transworld Publishers are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.
In Memoriam Douglas Adams (1952-2001) 'Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there arefairies at the bottom of it too?'
Contents
Preface Chapter 1 A deeply religious non-believer
Deserved respect Undeserved respect
9
11 20
Chapter 2
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
29
32 37 3846 54 61 66 69
Chapter 3
Arguments for God's existence
Thomas Aquinas' 'proofs' The ontological argument and other a priori arguments The argument from beauty The argument from personal 'experience'
75
77 80 86 87
The argument from scripture The argument from admired religious scientists Pascal's Wager Bayesian arguments
92 97 103 105
Chapter 4
Why there almost certainlyis no God
The Ultimate Boeing 747 Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser Irreducible complexity The worship of gaps The anthropic principle: planetary version version An interlude at Cambridge
111 113 114 119 125 134 141 151
The anthropic principle: cosmological
Chapter 5
The roots of religion
The Darwinian imperative Direct advantages of religion Group selection Religion as aby-product of something else Psychologically primed for religion
161
163 166 169 172 179
Tread softly, because you tread on my memes Cargo cults 191 202
Chapter 6
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?
209
214 222 226
Chapter 7
The 'Good' Book and thechanging moral Zeitgeist 235
The Old Testament Is the New Testament any better? Love thy neighbour The moral Zeitgeist What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren't they atheists? 272 237 250 254 262
Chapter 8
What's wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?
Fundamentalism and the subversion of science The dark side of absolutism Faith and homosexuality
279
282 286 289
Faith and the sanctity of...
The Selfish Gene The Extended Phenotype The Blind Watchmaker River Out of Eden Climbing Mount Improbable Unweaving the Rainbow A Devil's Chaplain The Ancestor's Tale
THE GOD DELUSION
Richard Dawkins
TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London W5 5SA a division of The Random House Group Ltd RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA (PTY) LTD 20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point,Sydney, New South Wales 2061, Australia RANDOM HOUSE NEW ZEALAND LTD 18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland 10, New Zealand RANDOM HOUSE SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD Isle of Houghton, Corner of Boundary Road &c Carse O'Gowrie, Houghton 2198, South Africa RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED 301 World Trade Tower, Hotel Intercontinental Grand Complex, Barakhamba Lane, New Delhi 110 001, IndiaPublished 2006 by Bantam Press a division of Transworld Publishers Copyright © Richard Dawkins 2006 The right of Richard Dawkins to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 9780593055489 (from Jan 07) ISBN 0593055489 ISBN9780593058251 (tpb from Jan 07) ISBN 0593058259 (tpb) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Typeset in ll/14pt Sabon by Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd. Printed and bound in Great Britain byWilliam Clowes Ltd, Beccles, Suffolk 5 791134
Papers used by Transworld Publishers are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.
In Memoriam Douglas Adams (1952-2001) 'Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there arefairies at the bottom of it too?'
Contents
Preface Chapter 1 A deeply religious non-believer
Deserved respect Undeserved respect
9
11 20
Chapter 2
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
29
32 37 3846 54 61 66 69
Chapter 3
Arguments for God's existence
Thomas Aquinas' 'proofs' The ontological argument and other a priori arguments The argument from beauty The argument from personal 'experience'
75
77 80 86 87
The argument from scripture The argument from admired religious scientists Pascal's Wager Bayesian arguments
92 97 103 105
Chapter 4
Why there almost certainlyis no God
The Ultimate Boeing 747 Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser Irreducible complexity The worship of gaps The anthropic principle: planetary version version An interlude at Cambridge
111 113 114 119 125 134 141 151
The anthropic principle: cosmological
Chapter 5
The roots of religion
The Darwinian imperative Direct advantages of religion Group selection Religion as aby-product of something else Psychologically primed for religion
161
163 166 169 172 179
Tread softly, because you tread on my memes Cargo cults 191 202
Chapter 6
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?
209
214 222 226
Chapter 7
The 'Good' Book and thechanging moral Zeitgeist 235
The Old Testament Is the New Testament any better? Love thy neighbour The moral Zeitgeist What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren't they atheists? 272 237 250 254 262
Chapter 8
What's wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?
Fundamentalism and the subversion of science The dark side of absolutism Faith and homosexuality
279
282 286 289
Faith and the sanctity of...
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