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The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine
by: Alister McGrath, Joanna Collicutt McGrath

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EAN: 9780281059270
ISBN: 0281059276
Label: SPCK Publishing
Manufacturer: SPCK Publishing
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: February 16, 2007
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Studio: SPCK Publishing
Sales Rank: 3557

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Oh Dear, more mumbo-jumbo
When I read this book I really tried to stay objective, but the sky-fairies kept whispering in my ear and telling me to do things. Utterly delusional as one might expect.

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- Well presented, and missing the point
Alister certainly dosnt make the mistake of diving into the scriptures to support his case.
The book centers on two main props.
1) The usual, Oooh, what a nasty man Richard Dawkins is.
2) Dawkins explains everything by science, specifically trying to find how and why we "evolved" religion.

Yeah,sure. Religion is a group psychology effect, and Richards attempts to label everything with a darwinian cause dosnt quite work. Alister however simply cant compete on any other level than these two...well actually one..point.
Props to him for effectively pointing out The God Delusions flaw, but if he was attempting to make a case for God, he rolled a critical fumble and lost his dice.

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- A timely response and a most apt title.
Much as already been written in reviews so it's pointless just repeating points of view for or against this book. All I can say is that McGrath's book is well worth studying, shows considerable balance and expertise, and shows clearly why most scientists (including many atheists) think Dawkins becomes completely unhinged and ignores all normal scientific precision and balance whenever he writes about religion.

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- Simple, concise and systematic debate
In this book, McGrath proceeds to identify Dawkins' main arguments and work through their fallacies. It is a refreshing and sufficiently detailed approach, using many quotations from "The God Delusion" to draw out the main points of Dawkins' argument. This enabled him to then treat the underlying flaws in Dawkins' logic without needing to resort to a pedantic process of pointing out the statistical or factual errors, which would leave the ideas of "The God Delusion" unaddressed.

Unlike the absurd ad-hominem attacks shown by Dawkins and many reviewers above ('[...] it is ["]obvious["] that [...] they must be mad') used to dismiss the claims of Christians, McGrath has the sense to keep out of emotional nonsense, while having eminently ... Read More:

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- Great summary of some problems with Dawkin's book
This is a great book if you want a snappy, concise response to Dawkin's book. If you want a detailed blow by blow account, you may want to look elsewhere, this book is only 65 pages.

McGrath seeks to pick on the main issues and flaws. While praising some of Dawkin's earlier work, he explains why he thinks this book is not of the same calibre, lacks the same academic rigour and to quote the words of Prospect Magazine "incurious, dogmatic, rambling, and self contradictory book".

McGrath sets out to assess the reliabilty of Dawkin's critique, this is his total aim. In this he is successful, as he succinctly explains why.

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