The God Delusion

· Transworld Digital · Narrated by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward
4.4
49 reviews
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13 hr 53 min
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The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types.

His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, is dramatically and dangerously dividing opinion around the world. In America, and elsewhere, a vigorous dispute between 'intelligent design' and Darwinism is seriously undermining and restricting the teaching of science. In many countries religious dogma from medieval times still serves to abuse basic human rights such as women's and gay rights. And all from a belief in a God whose existence lacks evidence of any kind.

Dawkins attacks God in all his forms. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry and abuses children.

The God Delusion is a brilliantly argued, fascinating polemic that is required listening for anyone interested in this most emotional and important subject.

Available now as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard Dawkins himself.

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4.4
49 reviews
Leonard Johnson
15 July 2019
Dawkins has major communication bias. The body of his writing is like a five year old lashing out in hostility merely because he doesn't get his way. Dawkins is evidently hostile against religion and his writing is argumentative, hateful, lacks any clear and concise understanding of christianity and how it relates to the false religions. Dawkins criticism is misguided, selective, incoherent, disruptive and abusive and doesnt deserve the time of day as it is patronising and incites ridicule.
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Moose
23 June 2019
A very interesting discussion on the concepts of god and religion! I do love the animatedness of the narrators, and they both do a very fine job of reading the story, although sometimes the switch between them, or lack thereof, is a little jarring.
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Matthew Sykes
24 April 2018
A great book that goes through all the Logical and scientific ways disproving god. It's also begins to explore why we have the need to explain things in such a manner. My only dislike this book was the way Richard Dawkins appears sometimes aggressively against religion without need for it.
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About the author

Richard Dawkins (Author, Reader)
Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

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