The god delusion also offers exhilarating insight on the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universes wonders. Mind you none of these have any concrete evidence against dawkins criticisms, rather they are filled with logistical fallacies that oversimplify and slander his work in the god delusion. Deluded by dawkins, by andrew wilson, is a lucid, coherent and very readable refutation of richard dawkins arguments against god and christianity for ordinary believers who. It has much more to say about the bible, including the many additional gospels besides the four canonical ones, notably the infancy gospel of thomas with its. I wrote this in 2015, with too much verbosity, and with the author of the question as target audience. Of the four books, rather astonishingly only one attempted a serious rebuttal of the god delusion and imparted a clear view of its writers beliefsand that was robertsons. My name is on the book and it represents exactly my opinions. Belief in god, according to dawkins, is a delusion. In america, three books in particular letter to a christian nation by sam harris, god is not great by christopher hitchens and the god delusion by richard.
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