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Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion (AudiobookFormat, 2007, Tantor Media) 4 stars

A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and …

Review of 'The God Delusion' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This is another one that I'll need to re-listen to in order to give a proper review. I had a print copy of this book once that I sold back to the Book Barn in Niantic, thinking that I would never get around to reading it—I was looking for a print copy of The Selfish Gene when I first bought it.

I remembered that I used an Audible credit on this and decided to listen to it on a whim. It always nice that Lalla Ward helped in narrating the audiobooks—Selfish Gene was an example of that—and The God Delusion was no different. It went from an audiobook to fall asleep with to one that I spent some of my waking hours trying to understand where Dawkins was coming from.

The review may change once I do a second listen...or read—I might try to hunt down a print copy again, possibly the same one I sold back.

What I can say was this: Dawkins's God Delusion does what it says on the tin, or rather, what he emphasizes in the beginning—to try and make a case for Universal Atheism by focusing on the wrongs of religion en masse.

There are some interesting passageways about his concerns regarding the study of theology in academia and its interaction with the sciences. However, as I mentioned, I need to give this another go before I can give a proper opinion on the book.