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The God Delusion
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First edition UK cover
Author Richard Dawkins
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subjects
  • Criticism of religion
  • disbelief
Publisher Bantam Books

Publication appointment

 ii Oct 2006
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 464
ISBN 978-0-618-68000-nine

Dewey Decimal

 211/.8 22
LC Class BL2775.3 .D39 2006

The God Mirage is a 2006 book by British evolutionary biologist, ethologist Richard Dawkins, a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford[1] [2] and, at the time of publication, the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.

In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator, God, almost certainly does not be, and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines equally a persistent faux belief held in the face of potent contradictory bear witness. He is sympathetic to Robert Pirsig'southward argument in Lila (1991) that "when one person suffers from a mirage it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is chosen religion."[3] With many examples, he explains that one does not demand faith to exist moral and that the roots of religion and of morality can be explained in not-religious terms.

In early December 2006, it reached number four in the New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Seller list after nine weeks on the listing.[4] More 3 million copies were sold.[five] According to Dawkins in a 2016 interview with Matt Dillahunty, an unauthorised Standard arabic translation of this book has been downloaded 3 million times in Saudi arabia.[vi] The book has attracted widespread commentary, with many books written in response.

Background [edit]

Dawkins has argued confronting creationist explanations of life in his previous works on development. The theme of The Blind Watchmaker, published in 1986, is that evolution tin explain the apparent design in nature. In The God Delusion he focuses directly on a wider range of arguments used for and against belief in the existence of a god (or gods).

Dawkins identifies himself repeatedly every bit an atheist, while too pointing out that, in a sense, he is also doubter, though "only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the lesser of the garden".[7]

Dawkins had long wanted to write a book openly criticising religion, but his publisher had advised confronting it. Past 2006, his publisher had warmed to the idea. Dawkins attributes this change of mind to "four years of Bush" (who "literally said that God had told him to invade Iraq").[8] [9] By that time, a number of authors, including Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, who together with Dawkins were labelled "The Unholy Trinity" by Robert Weitzel, had already written books openly attacking organized religion.[10] According to the Amazon.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland retailer in August 2007, the book was the best-seller in their sales of books on organized religion and spirituality, with Hitchens's God is Not Smashing: How Organized religion Poisons Everything coming second. This led to a 50% growth in that category over the three years to that date.[11]

Synopsis [edit]

Dawkins dedicates the book to Douglas Adams and quotes the novelist: "Isn't information technology enough to run into that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that at that place are fairies at the lesser of it also?"[12] : 7 The book contains ten capacity. The first few chapters make a example that there almost certainly is no God, while the residual discuss religion and morality.

Dawkins writes that The God Delusion contains four "consciousness-raising" messages:

  1. Atheists can exist happy, balanced, moral, and intellectually fulfilled.
  2. Natural pick and like scientific theories are superior to a "God hypothesis"—the illusion of intelligent blueprint—in explaining the living world and the cosmos.
  3. Children should not be labelled by their parents' faith. Terms like "Catholic kid" or "Muslim child" should make people cringe.
  4. Atheists should be proud, not apologetic, considering atheism is evidence of a salubrious, independent heed.[3]

"God hypothesis" [edit]

Affiliate one, "A securely religious non-believer", seeks to clarify the difference between what Dawkins terms "Einsteinian religion" and "supernatural religion". He notes that the former includes quasi-mystical and pantheistic references to God in the work of physicists similar Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, and describes such pantheism as "sexed upwards atheism". Dawkins instead takes issue with the theism present in religions like Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism.[13] The proposed beingness of this interventionist God, which Dawkins calls the "God Hypothesis", becomes an important theme in the book.[xiv] He maintains that the being or non-existence of God is a scientific fact about the universe, which is discoverable in principle if not in practice.[15]

Dawkins summarises the main philosophical arguments on God'due south beingness, singling out the statement from design for longer consideration. Dawkins concludes that evolution past natural selection can explain apparent pattern in nature.[iii]

He writes that i of the greatest challenges to the human intellect has been to explicate "how the circuitous, improbable design in the universe arises", and suggests that in that location are two competing explanations:

  1. A hypothesis involving a designer, that is, a complex being to account for the complexity that we see.
  2. A hypothesis, with supporting theories, that explains how, from simple origins and principles, something more complex tin can sally.

This is the basic set-up of his argument confronting the existence of God, the Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit,[sixteen] where he argues that the kickoff endeavor is self-refuting, and the second approach is the way forwards.[17]

At the end of chapter four ("Why there well-nigh certainly is no God"), Dawkins sums up his statement and states, "The temptation [to attribute the advent of design to actual design itself] is a false 1, considering the designer hypothesis immediately raises the larger problem of who designed the designer. The whole problem nosotros started out with was the problem of explaining statistical improbability. It is manifestly no solution to postulate something even more than improbable".[18] In addition, chapter 4 asserts that the alternative to the designer hypothesis is not chance, merely natural selection.

Dawkins does not claim to disprove God with accented certainty. Instead, he suggests as a general principle that simpler explanations are preferable (meet Occam's razor) and that an omniscient or almighty God must exist extremely circuitous (Dawkins argues that it is logically impossible for a God to be simultaneously all-seeing and omnipotent). As such he argues that the theory of a universe without a God is preferable to the theory of a universe with a God.[xix]

Organized religion and morality [edit]

The 2d half of the book begins by exploring the roots of religion and seeking an explanation for its ubiquity beyond human cultures. Dawkins advocates the "theory of religion as an accidental by-product – a misfiring of something useful"[20] equally for case the mind'south employment of intentional opinion. Dawkins suggests that the theory of memes, and human susceptibility to religious memes in detail, tin can explicate how religions might spread like "mind viruses" across societies.[21]

He then turns to the subject field of morality, maintaining that we do not need religion to be practiced. Instead, our morality has a Darwinian explanation: donating genes, selected through the process of development, requite people natural empathy. He asks, "would you commit murder, rape or robbery if you knew that no God existed?" He argues that very few people would respond "aye", undermining the claim that faith is needed to make usa behave morally. In support of this view, he surveys the history of morality, arguing that in that location is a moral Zeitgeist that continually evolves in lodge, generally progressing toward liberalism. As information technology progresses, this moral consensus influences how religious leaders interpret their holy writings. Thus, Dawkins states, morality does non originate from the Bible, rather our moral progress informs what parts of the Bible Christians have and what they now dismiss.[22]

Other themes [edit]

The God Mirage is non just a defence of atheism, merely likewise goes on the offensive confronting religion. Dawkins sees religion as subverting science, fostering fanaticism, encouraging bigotry confronting homosexuals, and influencing society in other negative ways.[23] Dawkins regards organized religion every bit a "divisive force" and as a "label for in-grouping/out-grouping enmity and vendetta".[24]

He is most outraged about the instruction of religion in schools, which he considers to be an indoctrination procedure. He equates the religious teaching of children by parents and teachers in organized religion schools to a form of mental corruption. Dawkins considers the labels "Muslim child" and "Catholic child" equally misapplied as the descriptions "Marxist kid" and "Tory child", as he wonders how a immature child can be considered developed enough to accept such contained views on the cosmos and humanity'southward place inside it.

The book concludes with the question of whether religion, despite its alleged problems, fills a "much needed gap", giving consolation and inspiration to people who need it. Co-ordinate to Dawkins, these needs are much ameliorate filled by non-religious means such as philosophy and science. He suggests that an atheistic worldview is life-affirming in a manner that religion, with its unsatisfying "answers" to life'south mysteries, could never be. An appendix gives addresses for those "needing support in escaping organized religion".

Critical reception [edit]

The volume provoked an firsthand response, both positive and negative, and was published with endorsements from scientists, such as Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA James D. Watson, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, as well as the popular writers of fiction and illusionists Penn and Teller.[25] Metacritic reported that the book had a weighted boilerplate score of 59 out of 100.[26] The book was nominated for Best Book at the British Book Awards, where Richard Dawkins was named Author of the Year.[27] Nevertheless, the volume received mixed reviews from critics, including both religious and atheist commentators.[28] [29] In the London Review of Books, Terry Eagleton defendant Richard Dawkins of not doing proper research into the topic of his work, religion, and further agreed with critics who defendant Dawkins of committing harbinger man fallacies against theists (something Dawkins rebuts).[xxx]

Oxford theologian Alister McGrath (author of The Dawkins Delusion? and Dawkins' God) argues that Dawkins is ignorant of Christian theology, and therefore unable to engage religion and faith intelligently.[31] In reply, Dawkins asks: "Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in leprechauns?",[32] and—in the paperback edition of The God Delusion—he refers to the American biologist PZ Myers, who has satirised this line of argument as "The Courtier'south Answer".[33] Dawkins had an extended fence with McGrath at the 2007 Dominicus Times Literary Festival.[34]

Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart says that Dawkins "devoted several pages of The God Delusion to a discussion of the 'Five Ways' of Thomas Aquinas just never thought to avail himself of the services of some scholar of aboriginal and mediaeval thought who might have explained them to him ... As a effect, he not only mistook the V Ways for Thomas'south comprehensive statement on why we should believe in God, which they most definitely are not, but ended upwardly completely misrepresenting the logic of every single i of them, and at the near bones levels."[35]

Christian philosopher Keith Ward, in his 2006 book Is Organized religion Dangerous?, argues confronting the view of Dawkins and others that faith is socially unsafe.

Ethicist Margaret Somerville[36] suggested that Dawkins "overstates the instance against religion",[37] particularly its role in human conflict.

Many of Dawkins' defenders claim that critics by and large misunderstand his existent indicate. During a debate on Radio 3 Hong Kong, David Nicholls, writer and president of the Atheist Foundation of Australia, reiterated Dawkins' sentiments that religion is an "unnecessary" attribute of global problems.[38] Dawkins argues that "the existence of God is a scientific hypothesis similar any other".[39] He disagrees with Stephen Jay Gould's principle of nonoverlapping magisteria (NOMA). In an interview with the Fourth dimension magazine, Dawkins said:

I think that Gould'southward separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win centre-of-the-road religious people to the science military camp. But it'due south a very empty thought. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf. Whatsoever belief in miracles is flat contradictory non just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.[xl]

Astrophysicist Martin Rees has suggested that Dawkins' assail on mainstream faith is unhelpful.[41] Regarding Rees' claim in his book Our Cosmic Habitat that "such questions prevarication beyond science; even so, they are the province of philosophers and theologians", Dawkins asks "what expertise can theologians bring to deep cosmological questions that scientists cannot?"[42] [43] Elsewhere, Dawkins has written that "in that location'south all the difference in the world between a belief that one is prepared to defend past quoting evidence and logic, and a belief that is supported by nothing more than tradition, authority or revelation."[44]

Argue [edit]

On 3 October 2007, John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, publicly debated Richard Dawkins at the Academy of Alabama at Birmingham on Dawkins' views as expressed in The God Delusion, and their validity over and against the Christian faith.[45] [46] [47] "The God Delusion Debate" marked Dawkins' showtime visit to the Old South and the first significant discussion on this outcome in the "Bible Belt".[48] The event was sold out, and the Wall Street Journal called it "a revelation: in Alabama, a civil contend over God'due south existence."[49] [l] Dawkins debated Lennox for the second time at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in October 2008. The debate was titled "Has Science Buried God?", in which Dawkins used a form of an Eddington concession in saying that, although he would not accept it, a reasonably respectable instance could be made for "a deistic god, a sort of god of the physicist, a god of somebody like Paul Davies, who devised the laws of physics, god the mathematician, god who put together the creation in the beginning place and and then sat back and watched everything happen" but non for a theistic god.[51] [52] [53] [54] Several days later, in a public debate in Inverness, Scotland, John Lennox used this part of Dawkins' spoken communication out of context challenge that "Dawkins now believes that a good instance can exist fabricated for deism", which Dawkins refuted in his conference in Atlanta, describing Lennox as insincere.[55] [56]

Reviews and responses [edit]

  • Alvin Plantinga: The Dawkins Defoliation[57]
  • Anthony Kenny: Knowledge Belief and Organized religion[58]
  • Thomas Nagel: The Fearfulness of Organized religion[59]
  • Michael Ruse: Chicago Journals Review[sixty]
  • Richard Swinburne: Response to Richard Dawkins[61]
  • Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath: The Dawkins Mirage? [62]
  • H. Allen Orr: A Mission to Catechumen[63]
  • Terry Eagleton: London Review of Books, Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching[64]
  • Antony Flew: The God Delusion Review[65] – Dawkins response[66]
  • Murrough O'Brien of The Independent: Our Teapot which art in sky[67] – Dawkins responds: Do you have to read up on leprechology earlier disbelieving in them?[68]
  • Marilynne Robinson: The God Delusion Review, Harper's Magazine 2006[69]
  • Simon Watson: "Richard Dawkins' The God Mirage and Atheist Fundamentalism," in Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology (Spring 2010)[70]
  • William Lane Craig: "Dawkins' Mirage", web commodity excerpted from Contending with Christianity'southward Critics [71]

Sales [edit]

As of Jan 2010, the English version of The God Delusion had sold over two meg copies.[72] As of September 2014[update], information technology increased to 3 million copies.[73] It was ranked 2d on the Amazon.com best-sellers' listing in November 2006.[74] It remained on the list for 51 weeks until xxx September 2007.[75] The German language version, entitled Der Gotteswahn, had sold over 260,000 copies as of 28 January 2010[update].[76] The God Delusion has been translated into 35 languages.[5]

Awards [edit]

For The God Delusion, Dawkins was named Author of the Year at the 2007 British Book Awards. The Giordano Bruno Foundation awarded the 2007 Deschner Prize to Dawkins for the "outstanding contribution to strengthen secular, scientific, and humanistic thinking" in his book.[77]

Responding books [edit]

Many books have been written in response to The God Delusion.[78] For example:

  • The Devil'south Delusion, by David Berlinski
  • Darwin's Angel, by John Cornwell
  • God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?, by John Lennox (Oxford: Lion, 2009)
  • The Dawkins Mirage?, by Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath

Legal repercussions in Turkey [edit]

In Turkey, where the book had sold at least 6,000 copies,[79] a prosecutor launched a probe into whether The God Delusion was "an set on on holy values", following a complaint in November 2007. If convicted, the Turkish publisher and translator, Erol Karaaslan, would have faced a prison sentence of inciting religious hatred and insulting religious values.[eighty] In Apr 2008, the court acquitted the accused. In ruling out the need to confiscate copies of the book, the presiding judge stated that banning information technology "would fundamentally limit the freedom of thought".[81]

Dawkins' website, richarddawkins.internet, was banned in Turkey later that year afterward complaints from Islamic creationist Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) for alleged defamation.[82] By July 2011, the ban had been lifted.[83]

Editions [edit]

English language [edit]

List of editions in English:

  • (in English) The God Delusion, hardcover edition, Bantam Printing, 2006.
    • The God Delusion, paperback edition (with new preface past Richard Dawkins), Blackness Swan, 2007.
    • The God Mirage, tenth anniversary edition (with new introduction by Richard Dawkins and afterword past Daniel Dennett), Black Swan, 2016.

Translations [edit]

The book has been officially translated into many different languages, such every bit Spanish, German, Italian, and Turkish. Dawkins has besides promoted unofficial translations of the book in languages such as Arabic[84] and Bengali.[85] There are also Telugu and Tamil translations of the book. The Richard Dawkins Foundation offers free translations in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, and Indonesian.[86]

Non-exhaustive list of international editions:

  • (in Greek) Η περί Θεού αυταπάτη, translated by Maria Giatroudaki, Panagiotis Delivorias, Alekos Mamalis, Nikos Ntaikos, Kostas Simos, Vasilis Sakellariou, 2007 (ISBN 978-960-6717-07-9).
  • (Brazilian Portuguese) Deus, um Delírio, translated by Fernanda Ravagnani, São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2007 (ISBN 9788535910704).
  • (European Portuguese) A desilusão de Deus, translated by Lígia Rodrigues and Maria João Camilo, Lisbon: Casa das Letras, 2007 (ISBN 978-972-46-1758-ix).
  • (in Swedish) Illusionen om Gud, translated by Margareta Eklöf, Stockholm: Leopard, 2007 (ISBN 9789173431767).
  • (in Finnish) Jumalharha, translated by Kimmo Pietiläinen, Helsinki: Terra Cognita, 2007 (ISBN 9789525697001).
  • (in Turkish) Tanri Yanilgisi, translated by Tnc Bilgin, Kuzey Yayinlari, 2007 (ISBN 9944315117).
  • (in Croation) Iluzija o Bogu, translated past Žarko Vodinelić, Zagreb: Izvori, 2007 (ISBN 0-618-68000-4).
  • (in German) Der Gotteswahn, translated by Sebastian Vogel, Ullstein Taschenbuch, 2008 (ISBN 3548372325).
  • (in French) Pour en finir avec Dieu, translated by Marie-France Desjeux-Lefort, 2008 (ISBN 9782221108932).
  • (in Italian) Fifty'illusione di Dio, translated by Laura Serra, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2008 (ISBN 8804581646).
  • (in Norwegian) Gud - en vrangforestilling translated by Finn B. Larsen and Ingrid Sande Larsen, 2007 (ISBN 9788292769027).
  • (in Russian) Бог как иллюзия, 2008 (ISBN 978-five-389-00334-7).
  • (in Tamil) கடவுள் ஒரு பொய் நம்பிக்கை, translated by G. V. K. Aasaan, Cen̲n̲ai, 2009 (ISBN 9788189788056).[87]
  • (in Spanish) El espejismo de Dios, translated by Natalia Pérez-Galdós, Madrid: Espasa, 2013 (ISBN 8467031972).
  • (in Latvian) Dieva delūzija, translated by Aldis Lauzis, Riga: Jumava, 2014 (ISBN 9789934115202).
  • (in Slovak) Boží blud, translated by Jana Lenzová, Bratislava: Citadella, 2016 (ISBN 9788089628667).
  • (in Slovenian) Bog kot zabloda, translated by Maja Novak, Ljubljana: Modrijan, 2016 (ISBN 9789612419646).
  • (in Czech) Boží blud, translated by Zuzana Gabajová, Prague: Citadella, 2016 (ISBN 9788081820465).

Interviews [edit]

  • "The flying spaghetti monster", interview with Steve Paulson, Salon.com, 13 October 2006
  • "God vs. Science", discussion with Francis Collins, TIME, 13 Nov 2006
  • "The God Delusion", interview with George Stroumboulopoulos, The Hour, v May 2007
  • "God . . . in other words", interview with Ruth Gledhill, The Times, 10 May 2007
  • "Richard Dawkins: An Argument for Disbelief", interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air, 7 March 2008

Come across likewise [edit]

  • Religious mirage
  • Amanuensis detection
  • Atheism: The Instance Against God (1974) by George H. Smith
  • Breaking the Spell: Faith as a Natural Phenomenon, (2006) a like book by Daniel Dennett
  • Efficacy of prayer
  • Evolutionary psychology of religion
  • The Future of an Illusion (1927) by Sigmund Freud, which besides proposes that theism results from a delusional conventionalities system
  • God of the gaps
  • Morality without faith
  • Pascal's Wager
  • New Disbelief
  • Spectrum of theistic probability

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Further reading [edit]

Chronological order of publication (oldest first)

  • Joan Bakewell: "Judgment Day", The Guardian, 23 September 2006
  • Stephen D. Unwin: "Dawkins needs to show some doubt", The Guardian, 29 September 2006
  • Crispin Tickell: "Heaven can wait", Financial Times (requires subscription). 30 September 2006
  • Paul Riddell: "Did Man really create God?", The Scotsman, 6 October 2006
  • Mary Midgley: "review", New Scientist (requires subscription). 7 October 2006
  • Troy Jollimore: "Better Living Without God?", San Francisco Chronicle, 15 October 2006
  • PZ Myers: "Bad Religion", Seed mag, 22 October 2006
  • Jim Holt: "Beyond belief", The New York Times, 22 October 2006
  • Terry Eagleton: "Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching", London Review of Books, Vol.28, No.xx,xix October 2006
  • Marilynne Robinson: "The God Mirage", Harper's Magazine, Nov 2006
  • Eric W. Lin: "Dawkins Says God Is Non Expressionless, But He Should Be", The Harvard Crimson, 1 Nov 2006
  • James Wood: "The Angelic Teapot", The New Democracy, December 2006
  • Michael Fitzpatrick: "The Dawkins mirage", Spiked, 18 December 2006
  • Bill Muehlenberg: "A Review of The God Delusion": Part 1, Role 2, on the Australian commentator's CultureWatch web log
  • Robert Stewart: "A detailed summary and review of The God Delusion", The Journal of Evolutionary Philosophy. 2006
  • H. Allen Orr: "A Mission to Convert", The New York Review of Books, 11 Jan 2007
  • Steven Weinberg: "A mortiferous certitude", The Times Literary Supplement (requires subscription), 17 January 2007
  • Alister McGrath: The Dawkins Mirage, 15 February 2007
  • Scott Hahn: Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God, Emmaus Road Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-931018-48-seven

External links [edit]

  • Newsnight Book Club – Extracts from The God Delusion
  • Richard Dawkins interviewed by Laurie Taylor in New Humanist mag
  • The God Mirage Debate (Dawkins – Lennox) (10/03/2007)
  • Gratis Urdu language translation of The God Delusion

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