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The God Delusion
2007, WF Howes, Clipper Large Print
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L'illusione di Dio: le ragioni per non credere
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The God Delusion
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Table of Contents
Preface
Page 1
Chapter 1.
A Deeply Religious Non-Believer
Page 12
Deserved Respect
Page 12
Undeserved Respect
Page 26
Chapter 2.
The God Hypothesis
Page 39
Polytheism
Page 41
Monotheism
Page 48
Secularism, The Founding Fathers and the Religion of America
Page 51
The Poverty of Agnosticism
Page 64
NOMA
Page 76
The Great Prayer Experiment
Page 87
The Neville Chamberlain School of Evolutionists
Page 95
Little Green Men
Page 101
Chapter 3.
Arguments for God's Existence
Page 108
Thomas Aquinas’ ‘Proofs’
Page 108
The Ontological Argument and Other _A Priori_ Arguments
Page 113
The Argument from Beauty
Page 122
The Argument from Personal ‘Experience’
Page 125
The Argument from Scripture
Page 132
The Argument from Admired Religious Scientists
Page 141
Pascal's Wager
Page 151
Bayesian Arguments
Page 154
Chapter 4.
Why There Almost Certainly Is No God
Page 161
The Ultimate Boeing 747
Page 161
Natural Selection as a Consciousness Raiser
Page 164
Irreducible Complexity
Page 171
The Worship of Gaps
Page 181
The Anthropic Principle: Planetary Version
Page 196
The Anthropic Principle: Cosmological Version
Page 207
An Interlude at Cambridge
Page 223
Chapter 5.
The Roots of Religion
Page 236
The Darwinian Imperative
Page 236
Direct Advantages of Religion
Page 242
Group Selection
Page 247
Religion as a By-Product of Something Else
Page 251
Psychologically Primed for Religion
Page 262
Tread Softly, Because You Tread on My Memes
Page 281
Cargo Cults
Page 299
Chapter 6.
The Roots of Morality: Why Are We Good?
Page 308
Does Our Moral Sense Have a Darwinian Origin?
Page 314
A Case Study in the Roots of Morality
Page 327
If There Is No God, Why Be Good?
Page 334
Chapter 7.
The 'Good' Book and the Changing Moral _Zeitgeist_
Page 346
The Old Testament
Page 347
Is the New Testament Any Better?
Page 368
Love Thy Neighbour
Page 374
The Moral _Zeitgeist_
Page 388
What About Hitler and Stalin? Weren't They Atheists?
Page 403
Chapter 8.
What's Wrong with Religion? Why Be So Hostile?
Page 414
Fundamentalism and the Subversion of Science
Page 416
The Dark Side of Absolutism
Page 423
Faith and Homosexuality
Page 427
Faith and the Sanctity of Human Life
Page 431
The Great Beethoven Fallacy
Page 442
How ‘Moderation’ in Faith Fosters Fanaticism
Page 448
Chapter 9.
Childhood, Abuse and the Escape from Religion
Page 459
Physical and Mental Abuse
Page 466
In Defence of Children
Page 483
An Educational Scandal
Page 492
Consciousness-Raising Again
Page 502
Religious Education as a Part of Literary Culture
Page 506
Chapter 10.
A Much Needed Gap?
Page 513
Binker
Page 515
Consolation
Page 522
Inspiration
Page 536
The Mother of All Burkas
Page 538
Appendix.
A Partial List of Friendly Addresses for Individuals Needing Support in Escaping from Religion
Page 560
Books Cited or Recommended
Page 568
Edition Notes
Originally published: [London] : Bantam Press, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 568-580).
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