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402 T H E GOD D E L U S I O NDonne, John, 221Dornan, Bob, 288Dostoevsky, Feodor, 227Douglas, Stephen A., 267Douglas, William O., 330Downey, Margaret, 45Drake Equation, 70-1Dreams of a Final Theory(Weinberg), 12Drummond, Bulldog, 266dualism, 179-81, 183Dutchman's Pipe, 120Dyson, Freeman, 144, 152Earth, orbit of, 135-6Edge website, 152education: Amish, 329-31; creationist,331-7; religious,341-4; segregated, 261; teachingthat faith is a virtue,307-8Ehrman, Bart, 95Einstein, Albert: mask of, 89; onmorality, 226; on personalGod, 9, 15; on purpose of life,209; religious views, 13, 14,15-19, 20Eisenhower, Dwight, 289Electric Meme, The (Aunger),196electrons, 147-8, 363-4Elizabeth II, Queen, 205-6embryos, human, 291-8, 300Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 29Emmanuel College, Gateshead,331-7End of Faith, The (Harris), 88,278Engel, Gerhard, 274Enigma code, 289eucaryotic cell, 140Euler, Leonhard, 84euthanasia, 293, 356-7evidence, 282-3evil, existence of, 108evolution: belief in, 282-3; continuity,300-1; design and, 61,79, 158; evolved organs, 129,134; process of, 122, 134-5Evolution vs Creationism(Scott), 66Exclusive Brethren, the, 321-2Existence of God, The(Swinburne), 64nExtended Phenotype, The(Dawkins), 165eyes, 123-4, 139, 179Fabric of Reality, The (Deutsch),365faith, 308Falwell, Jerry, 289Faraday, Michael, 98Fatima vision (1917), 91-2Faulhaber, Michael, 277Female of the Species, The('Sapper'), 266feminism, 115-16Feynman, Richard, 365Finding Darwin's God (Miller),131Fisher, Helen, 184-5Flatland (Abbott), 372Flemming, Brian, 211-12Flew, Antony, 82n'Flood geology', 334Flying Spaghetti Monster, 53, 55Flynn, Tom, 44n, 94Forrest, Barbara, 211fossil record, 127-8Founding Fathers, 38-46Franklin, Benjamin, 43Fraser, Giles, 41Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 48Frayn, Michael, 183Frazer, James, 36, 188Free Inquiry, 6-1, 44n, 94, 96nFreedom From ReligionFoundation (FFRF), 212Freethinkers: A History ofAmerican Secularism (Jacoby),38Freethought Society of GreaterPhiladelphia, 45Freethought Today, 212French, Peter, 336Frisch, Karl von, 182Frum, John, 203-6fundamentalism, 282-6Fundamentals of Extremism,The (Blaker), 288Galileo, 369Galouye, Daniel E, 73Galton, Francis, 61Gandhi, Mohandas, 45, 250, 271gaps, worship of, 125-34Gasking, Douglas, 83-4Gaunilo, 83Gaylor, Anne, 395Gell-Mann, Murray, 146gene, selfish, 215-16gene cartels, 197-8generosity, 218-19, 220, 221genes, 191, 192, 197-8Genes, Memes and HumanHistory (Shennan), 196Genesis, book of, 237-8, 240,242,334genetic drift, 189Genghis Khan, 268-9Gershwin, George, 94ghosts, 90-1Gillooly, Robert, 94Glenn, Norval D., 261Glover, J., 393God, Chance and Necessity(Ward), 149-50'god centre' in brain, 168-9God Hypothesis: argument fromimprobability, 114; definition,31, 38, 58, 71; goodnessissue, 108; invulnerability toscience, 66; probability of, 46,114; simplicity, 149; untenable,158; versions, 32God Who Wasn't There, The(Flemming), 211Goebbels, Josef, 277Goering, Hermann, 274Golden Bough, The (Frazer), 36,188golden calf, 244-5Goldilocks zone, 135-7, 143,147Goldwater, Barry, 39Golgi Apparatus, 283-4, 285Good Samaritan, 215, 220Goodenough, Ursula, 13Goodwin, Jan, 302gospels, 92-7, 152Gott, John William, 288Gould, Stephen Jay, 55, 57-8,60, 71, 284Graham, Billy, 95Grand, Steve, 370, 371Graves, Robert, 252Gray, Muriel, 304, 394Grayling, A. C., 231, 393Great Beethoven Fallacy,298-300Great Vowel Shift, 189, 198-9Greer, Germaine, 25Gregory, Richard, 389Gregory the Miracle Worker, 34Gross, Paul, 211group selection, 169-72Guardian, 41, 133, 294, 332HADD (hyperactive agent detectiondevice), 184Haggard, Ted ('Pastor Ted'),319, 320Haitian Voodoo, 326Haldane, J. B. S., 128, 364, 372,374Halley's Comet, 136hallucinations, 88, 154, 349-51Hamilton, W. D., 216Hari, Johann, 302Harries, Richard, 335Harris, Sam: on bin Laden,303-4; on end-of-worldbeliefs, 302; on nakedness,252; on religion and crime,229-30; on religion and sanity,88; on religion and war,278; on suicide bomber,304-5Hartung, John, 253, 254-5,257-8Has Science Found God?(Stenger), 118Hassan, Nasra, 305Haught, James, 98Hauser, Marc, 214, 222-6Hawking, Stephen, 13, 14, 18Haydn, Josef, 87HealthFreedomUSA, 369hell, 319-22Hell Houses, 319-20Helms, Jesse, 290Herod, King, 93, 94Hess, Rudolf, 273-4

I N D E X 403Hill, Paul, 294-5, 296-7Hinde, Robert, 177, 184, 214,232, 341Hinduism, 32, 33, 260Hiroshima, 64nHis Dark Materials (Pullman),130nHitchcock, Alfred, 315Hitchens, Christopher, 42, 292,354Hitchhiker's Guide to theGalaxy, The (Adams), 364Hitler, Adolf: atheist or not,153, 272-8; birth, 299;Catholicism, 273-7; evilactions, 107,231,268-9;fight against, 67; Jewish policy,16; morality, 230-1, 247;Zeitgeist of his time, 270Hollo way, Richard, 237Holocaust, 64homosexuality: Darwinianapproach, 166; religious attitudes,23-4, 238, 248,289-91; US attitudes, 23-4,238, 288, 289-91Horgan, John, 151-3How the Mind Works (Pinker),168How We Believe (Shermer), 102,168Hoyle, Fred, 72, 113, 117, 122,142Hugo, Victor, 309Human Genome Project, 99Hume, Basil, 356, 358Hume, David, 83, 91, 114, 157Humphrey, Nicholas, 325-6,327-30Huxley, Aldous, 84, 86Huxley, Julian, 150Huxley, T. H.: agnosticism,48-50, 54, 71; misquoted,213; position in moralZeitgeist, 271; racialperspective, 266-7hydrogen, 142-3Idolatry (Halbertal andMargalit), 244ignorance, 125-6illusions, optical, 89-90, 154imaginary friends, 347-52immune system, 133In Gods We Trust (Atran), 36,177Inca religion, 327-8Independent, 21, 52n, 249, 302,333, 337-8, 340India, partition, 1, 45-6, 260indulgences, 358Inquisition, 312-13inspiration, 360-2intelligent design (ID), 61, 82n,113, 124-5, 126, 131-3intentional stance, 182-3IQ and religiosity, 102-3Iran, rule of ayatollahs, 302Iraq: invasion of, 21, 268, 303;sectarian conflict, 21, 260Ireland, education, 316-17irreducible complexity (IC), 122,125, 131Is There a God? (Swinburne),58, 147Isaac, 242-3, 251, 265Ishmael, 242Islam: as memeplex, 200;Danish cartoon issue, 24-7;foundation, 37, 287; Indianpartition, 260; law on intermarriage,287; power ofscripture, 242; religious education,3, 306; status ofwomen, 302Israel: Palestinian conflict, 1,302; schoolchildren's view ofJoshua, 255-7IVF (in vitro fertilization), 294Jacoby, Susan, 38Jammer, Max, 16Javers, R., 394Jaynes, Julian, 350-1Jefferson, Thomas: religiousviews, 42-3, 45, 75, 111; supportfor Paine, 38; view ofdeath, 354; view of God, 31;view of Jesus' birth, 97; viewof Trinity, 34Jephthah, 243Jericho, battle of, 247, 255-7,261Jerry Springer, the Opera, 288Jesus: accounts of life, 95-7,206; atonement for sin,251-3; birth, 93-5, 97; divinestatus, 92; ethics, 250-1;Jewish background, 257, 276;miracles, 59, 73, 107; parentage,59; persona, 31; power,213Jesus (Wilson), 93, 96nJews: Arab anti-Jewish cartoons,26; children's loyalty toJudaism, 255-7; Christiananti-semitism, 1, 275;Einstein, 16; electability in US,4; Hitler's policy towards, 16,274-5; Holocaust, 64; lobbyin US, 4, 44; Mortara kidnapcase, 311-15; religious beliefs,14, 37, 53, 259; religioushomogamy, 262John, gospel of, 93John Paul II, Pope, 35, 67Johnson, Phillip E., 5, 82nJones, John E., 131, 133Joseph, 93-4, 95, 96nJoshua, 247, 255-7, 261Joshua, book of, 247Judaism, see JewsJudas Iscariot, 252-3Judges, book of, 240-1, 243, 255Juergensmeyer, Mark, 294, 295Jung, Carl Gustav, 50, 51Jupiter, planet, 136Just Six Numbers (Rees), 141-2Jyllands-Posten, 24, 25kamikazes, 306Kaminer, Wendy, 4Kant, Immanuel, 83, 224,231-2, 233Karzai, Hamid, 287Katrina, hurricane, 239Keleman, Deborah, 181, 184Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord,98-9Kenny, Anthony, 186Ken's Guide to the Bible, 258Kertzer, David I., 311Khomeini, Ayatollah, 288Kidnapping of Edgar doMortara, The (Kertzer), 311Kilduff, M., 394kindness, 218-19,221King, Coretta Scott, 290-1King, Martin Luther, 250, 271,290King Jesus (Graves), 252kinship, 216, 218, 220Kohn, Marek, 161Koran, see Qur'anKPFT-FM, Irish radio station,339Kurtz, Paul, 361Ladman, Cathy, 167-8Lady Chatterley's Lover(Lawrence), 268Lane, B., 394Lane Fox, Robin, 93-4, 95language evolution, 189, 198Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 46nLarson, Edward J., 100-1, 102Latimer, Hugh, 314Laughing Gas (Wodehouse), 180Lawrence, Raymond J., 65Layfield, Stephen, 332-6Lear, Edward, 78leaves, 139Lennon, John, 1Leslie, John, 144Letter to a Christian Nation(Harris), 229-30, 252, 302Letting Go of God (Sweeney),250, 323-4Leviticus, book of, 248Lewis, C.S., 92Lewontin, Richard, 164LGM (Little Green Men) signal,71-2Liberty University, 289life, origin of, 137-41Life - How Did It Get Here?,119Life of Brian, The (MontyPython), 202Life of the Cosmos, The(Smolin), 146Life Science, The (Medawar),298light, visible, 362-3

Page 2 and 3: Also by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish

Page 4 and 5: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS61-63 Uxbridge

Page 6 and 7: ContentsPrefaceChapter 1Chapter 2Ch

Page 8 and 9: Tread softly, because you tread onm

Page 10 and 11: PrefaceAs a child, my wife hated he

Page 12 and 13: PREFACE 3If you feel trapped in the

Page 14 and 15: PREFACE 5herding cats, because they

Page 16 and 17: PREFACE 7Free Inquiry, especially,

Page 18 and 19: A D E E P L Y R E L I G I O U S N O

Page 20 and 21: A DEEPLY RELIGIOUS N O N - B E L I


Page 24 and 25: A D E E PLY R E L I G I O U S N O N


Page 28 and 29: A D E E P L Y RE L 1 G I O U S N O


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Page 36 and 37: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 31The God of the

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Page 44 and 45: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 39although it ha

Page 46 and 47: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 41enterprise. Ri

Page 48 and 49: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 43God; because,

Page 50 and 51: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 45Anecdotes of s

Page 52 and 53: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 47Carl Sagan was

Page 54 and 55: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 49Huxley was not

Page 56 and 57: T H E G O D H Y P O T H E SIS 51can

Page 58 and 59: T H E G O D H Y P O T H E SIS 53in

Page 60 and 61: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 55McGrath goes o

Page 62 and 63: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 57the Cambridge

Page 64 and 65: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 59unequivocally

Page 66 and 67: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 61non-interventi

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Page 70 and 71: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 65Another typica

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Page 78 and 79: THE GOD HYPOTHESIS 73advanced techn

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Page 94 and 95: A R G U M ENTS F O R G O D ' S E X

Page 96 and 97: ARGUMENTS F O R GOD'S E X I S T E N

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Page 104 and 105: ARGUMEN T S FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE 101

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Page 110 and 111: A R Ci U M E N T S F O R G O D ' S

Page 112 and 113: ARGUMENTS F O R G OD'S E X I S T E

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Page 128 and 129: no evidence of its own, but thrives

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Page 154 and 155: WHY T H E R K A L. M O S T C R R T

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Page 162 and 163: T H E R O O T S OF R K 1. i G I ()

Page 164 and 165: THE ROOTS OF RELIGION 165themselves

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Page 180 and 181: THE ROOTS OF RELIGION 181psychologi

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Page 198 and 199: T HE ROOTS OF RELIGION 199ambiguity

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Page 238 and 239: THE ' G O O D ' B O O K AND T H E M

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Page 274 and 275: CHAPTER 8What's wrong withreligion?

Page 276 and 277: 282 THE GOD DELUSIONbomb anybody, b

Page 278 and 279: 284 THE GOD DELUSIONof the lecture,

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Page 338 and 339: CHAPTER 10A much neededgap?What can

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Page 350 and 351: 358 THE GOD DELUSIONare most afraid

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Page 358 and 359: 366 THEGODDELUSIONmathematics work,

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Page 362 and 363: 370 T H E GOD DELUSIONand that limi

Page 364 and 365: 372 THE GOD DELUSIONof simulating a

Page 366 and 367: 374 T H E G O D DEL U S I O Nagains

Page 368 and 369: 376 T H E G O D D E L U S I O NAfri

Page 370 and 371: 378 THEGODDELUSIONNational Secular

Page 372 and 373: Books cited orrecommendedAdams, D.

Page 374 and 375: 382 THE GOD DELUSIONDennett, D. C.

Page 376 and 377: 384 T HE GOD DELUSIO NHodder &c Sto

Page 378 and 379: 386 THE GOD D E I, US1ONShermer, M.

Page 380 and 381: NotesPreface1 Wendy Kaminer, 'The l

Page 382 and 383: 390 T HE GO D D E L U S I O N34 Hen

Page 384 and 385: 392 THE GOD DELUSION64 This account

Page 386 and 387: 394 THE GOD DELUSIONChapter 7: The

Page 388 and 389: 396 THE GOD DELUSIONThe dark side o

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Page 392 and 393: IndexA for Andromeda (Hoyle), 72Aar

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