04008nam a22003134a 4500 20080418103834.0 080114r20082006mau | b 001 0 eng B-269645-649, B-284188 9780552774291 £ 3.25 (273.00), 289.25 B-269645-649, B-284188 dpl English 211.8 Dawkins, Richard The God delusion / by Richard Dawkins. London Black Swan 2007 463 p. 18cm (pbk) Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-448) and index. A deeply religious nonbeliever. Deserved respect ; Undeserved respect -- The God hypothesis. Polytheism ; Monotheism ; Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America ; The poverty of agnosticism ; NOMA ; The great prayer experiment ; The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists ; Little green men -- Arguments for God's existence. Thomas Aquinas's "proofs" ; The ontological argument and other a priori arguments ; The argument from beauty ; The argument from personal "experience" ; The argument from Scripture ; The argument from admired religious scientists ; Pascal's wager ; Bayesian arguments -- Why there almost certainly is no God. The ultimate Boeing 747 ; Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser ; Irreducible complexity ; The worship of gaps ; The anthropic principle : planetary version ; The anthropic principle : cosmological version ; An interlude at Cambridge -- The roots of religion. The Darwinian imperative ; Direct advantages of religion ; Group selection ; Religion as a by-product of something else ; Psychologically primed for religion ; Tread softly, because you tread on my memes ; Cargo cults -- The roots of morality : why are we good? Does our moral sense have a Darwinian origin? ; A case study in the roots of morality ; If there is no God, why be good? -- The "good" book and the changing moral Zeitgeist. The Old Testament ; Is the New Testament any better? ; Love thy neighbour ; The moral Zeitgeist ; What about Hitler and Stalin? : weren't they atheists? -- What's wrong with religion? : why be so hostile? Fundamentalism and the subversion of science ; The dark side of absolutism ; Faith and homosexuality ; Faith and the sanctity of human life ; The great Beethoven fallacy ; How "moderation" in faith fosters fanaticism -- Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion. Physical and mental abuse ; In defence of children ; An educational scandal ; Consciousness-raising again ; Religious education as a part of literary culture -- A much needed gap? Binker ; Consolation ; Inspiration ; The mother of all burkas. Atheism. Religion Controversial literature. ddc EN DAW 211.8 16118 16118 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC L L 2008-11-04 Super/44098/26.5.08 /94 /16.5.08 /5.6.08 273.00 0 211.8 DAW B-269645 2008-11-04 00:00:00 1 273.00 2008-11-04 EN 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC BL1 BL1 2008-11-04 273.00 0 211.8 DAW B-269646 2008-11-04 00:00:00 1 273.00 2008-11-04 EN 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC ZLS ZLS 2008-11-04 273.00 0 211.8 DAW B-269647 2008-11-04 00:00:00 1 273.00 2008-11-04 EN 4 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC BL3 BL3 2008-11-04 273.00 0 211.8 DAW B-269648 2008-11-04 00:00:00 1 273.00 2008-11-04 EN Written off on approval by DLB (By Circulation); dtd 15-06-2023 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC BL4 BL4 2008-11-04 273.00 0 211.8 DAW B-269649 2008-11-04 00:00:00 1 273.00 2008-11-04 EN 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC VP VP 2008-11-17 Super/44931/30.7.08/170/21.7.08/13.8.08 289.25 10 2 211.8 DAW B-284188 2018-04-18 00:00:00 2018-04-03 1 289.25 2008-11-17 EN