THE GOD DELUSION
By Richard Dawkins
Bantam Press. 406 pages. £20.00
ISBN 0 593 05548 9
This latest book by Oxford University’s Professor for the Public Understanding of Science is an aggressive atheistic polemic. Richard Dawkins throws considerable prestige, literary skill and anger into an all-out attack on God.
Thomas Nagel, top philosopher and Fellow of the British Academy has described the book as ‘a very uneven collection of scriptural ridicule, amateur philosophy, historical and contemporary horror stories, anthropological speculations, and cosmological scientific arguments … Dawkins is operating mostly outside the range of his scientific expertise’ (The New Republic, October 23 2006).
