Title: Outgrowing God Pdf A Beginner's Guide
Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God.
Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he’d felt certain they must have had a designer. Learning about evolution changed his mind. Now one of the world’s best and bestselling science communicators, Dawkins has given readers, young and old, the same opportunity to rethink the big questions.
In twelve fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, Dawkins explains how the natural world arose without a designer—the improbability and beauty of the “bottom-up programming” that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings—and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world’s religions: Do you believe in God? Which one? Is the Bible a “Good Book”? Is adhering to a religion necessary, or even likely, to make people good to one another? Dissecting everything from Abraham’s abuse of Isaac to the construction of a snowflake, Outgrowing God is a concise, provocative guide to thinking for yourself.
Advance praise for Outgrowing God
“My son came home from his first day in the sixth grade with arms outstretched plaintively demanding to know: ‘Have you ever heard of Jesus?’ We burst out laughing. Maybe not our finest parenting moment, given that he was genuinely distraught. He felt that he had woken up one day to a world in which his peers were expressing beliefs he found frighteningly unreasonable. He began devouring books like The God Delusion, books that helped him formulate his own arguments and helped him stand his ground. Dawkins’s new book is special in the terrain of atheists’ pleas for humanism and rationalism precisely since it speaks to those most vulnerable to the coercive tactics of religion. As Dawkins himself says in the dedication, this book is for ‘all young people when they’re old enough to decide for themselves.’ It is also, I must add, for their parents.”—Janna Levin, author of Black Hole Blues
“When someone is considering atheism I tell them to read the Bible first and then Dawkins. Outgrowing God—second only to the Bible!”—Penn Jillette, author of God, No!
Nothing new here, and nothing interesting Dawkins has written all this before. He’s said many times, for example, that any God who could create the cosmos would have to be more complex than the cosmos, and would need his existence explained just as much. He’s been answered many times, but he only repeats himself. It’s as if there were no intellectual world outside his own head; as if intellectual integrity never called for a thinker to respond to other thinkers.The same goes for virtually all his theologizing. (I’m not a scientist so I will not speak to most of his science, though I’ll turn to one piece of it very shortly.) It’s all recycled material, but sterile, in the sense that it’s remained uninfluenced by the living world surrounding it.And not just his theology but also his philosophy. At the end of the book he says we “must” live in a “Goldilocks” universe, one of the rare members of the multiverse that supports life. He backs off in the next paragraph as far as admitting it’s not proved yet, but that’s after he concludes it must be true. And why must it be true, even in the complete absence of any physical, empirical evidence? Because there’s no God. And why is he so sure there’s no God? Because the multiverse theory could be true. That’s just rationally empty; it begs the question of God; it’s arguing in a circleThere’s nothing of interest here that wasn’t already in *The God Delusion,* of which nearly every chapter was given enough response by theists to merit at least some attempt at a counter-argument. Dawkins doesn’t seem to care. And because this is old and worked-over material, my final comment is that (unlike most of what I’ve read if Dawkins) this book was really quite boring. I read it so I could review it for The Stream, which I’ll do soon enough. Otherwise I’d have laid it down after a couple chapters and found a better way to spend my time.Atheism for teens This book contains much of the same material as “The God Delusion,” but presented for younger people. Judging from the reaction of a right-wing media reviewer elsewhere on this page (who from appearances simply skipped to the last page, noticed a tangent on the multiverse theory, assumed that it was part of the core argument rather than a tangent, and decided the whole thing was circular reasoning because how can you have a multiverse without God, right? Right?), it won’t convince those who are determined not to be convinced. But Dawkins is no longer speaking to them. That’s the whole point. Young people can decide for themselves, and are doing so. And that scares the hell out of certain people.
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