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The God Delusion is a 2006 book by British evolutionary biologist and ethologist Richard Dawkins.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator, God, almost certainly does not exist, and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.
Atheism. The Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit is a counter-argument to modern versions of the argument from design for the existence of God. It was introduced by Richard Dawkins in chapter 4 of his 2006 book The God Delusion, "Why there almost certainly is no God". The argument is a play on the notion of a "tornado sweeping through a junkyard to ...
John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is an Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God (like his books, Has Science Buried God and Can Science Explain Everything), and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
Larry Taunton has personally engaged some of the most outspoken opponents of Christianity, including Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Peter Singer. In 2007, he organized "The God Delusion Debate" between Dawkins and Christian apologist John Lennox concerning Dawkins' arguments against Christianity as set forth in his bestselling book, The God Delusion.
Richard Dawkins, probably the world’s most prominent atheist, stirred up social media recently by signaling a change in his typically hostile stance against all religion.
The reference section / citations are not consistently formatted. For example, The God Delusion is used as a source in ref 1, 11 to 14, 15 to 16, and 19, yet all are formatted differently. Several books have been published about The God Delusion - they are listed in the 'See Also' - but do not seem to have been used at all in the citatons.
In a 1998 article published in Free Inquiry magazine, [76] and later in his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins expresses disagreement with the view advocated by Stephen Jay Gould that science and religion are two non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), each existing in a "domain where one form of teaching holds the appropriate tools for meaningful ...
Richard Dawkins in his latest best-selling book The God Delusion (2006) asserts that a Catholic upbringing promotes guilt-trips referring[ to the "semi-permanent state of morbid guilt suffered by a Catholic possessed of normal human frailty and less than normal intelligence" .