The God Delusion is a 2006 book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, holder of 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 almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence. He is sympathetic to Robert Pirsig's observation that "when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."[1] (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion
Faith can be very very dangerous and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grevious wrong. (Dawkins, The God Delusion)
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification. (Dawkins, The God Delusion)
Commentary:
I believe that a true scientist seeps a totally open mind. As a Geophysicist, I was trained to consider all evidence and competing theories. I know that Science cannot prove anything by force of reason. The motto of Science is “Suspended Judgement”. There are always other possible explanations. Occam's Razor is a nice guidepost but not infallible. Many in the Biologic Sciences seem to fall for the "50 Million Frenchmen can't be wrong" argument. My Statistics teacher made a strong point that rejection of the Null Hypothesis with a high probability is pretty weak given that the CONVERSE of the Null Hypothesis is NOT PROVED! The true Scientist must be Agnostic about both Science and Religion because to take sides implies the closing of one’s mind to other possibilities.
One of Dawkins implications is that the science of Evolutionary Biology is so well developed, that its conclusions are unassailable. This is quite interesting given that reproducible experiments in this field are not possible and the entire theory is reduced to a thought experiment. That said, I will admit to believing in Evolution as the most plausible theory out there but some form of Intelligent Design or guidance is not ruled out either. (pwj)
Dawkins has written some pretty radical accusations about Christians that should be answered quickly and well. Many of his accusations are based on clear abuses by out of control “Christians” in name only. One of my Baptist friends defined the problem of the Christian as “hating Sin but somehow managing to Love the Sinner”. We often fail in this regard but that doesn’t make us and evil breed, just Sinners trying to find our way. (pwj)
I am concerned that Christians are already being persecuted in Academia and the Political arena. Dawkins readily admits that a hatred for President Bush was his motivation for writing the book. If he has his way, Christians may be taken to the insane asylums and given drugs to make them forget their faith. This is precisely what happened in the Atheistic
