Iluzija o Bogu

non-fiction by Richard Dawkins

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Iluzija o Bogu je najprodavanija nefikcijska knjiga iz 2006. godine engleskog biologa Richarda Dawkinsa, redovitog profesora na Novom kolegiju u Oxfordu i bivšeg pročelnika Katedre Charlesa Simonyija za javno razumijevanje znanosti na Sveučilištu u Oxfordu.
U Iluziji o Bogu Dawkins tvrdi da nadnaravni tvorac gotovo sigurno ne postoji i vjerovanje u osobnog Boga definira kao perzistentno lažno uvjerenje koje se drži unatoč predočenju snažnih protudokaza.
Do siječnja 2010. godine engleska je inačica Iluzije o Bogu prodana u preko 2 milijuna primjeraka. Dosegla je 2. mjesto na popisu najprodavanijih knjiga na Amazon.comu u studenome 2006. godine. Početkom prosinca 2006. godine dosegla je 4. mjesto na popisu najprodavanijih nefikcijskih tvrdouvezanih knjiga New York Timesa nakon devet tjedana provedenih na popisu. Na popisu je ostala sveukupno 51 tjedan sve do 30. rujna 2007. Njemačka inačica naslovljena Der Gotteswahn prodana je u preko 260 000 primjeraka do 28. siječnja 2010. godine. Ovo je djelo potaknulo komentare i reakcije sa svih strana, a mnogo je knjiga napisano kao odgovor na nju.

First Published

2006

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Kdganey1991

The only chapter I read was when he tried to disprove Thomas Aquinas' Five Proofs for God, and at first I thought there were some good points, but there were still issues that I found unconvincing, such as ruling out the perfect moral source based on variations of right and wrong should also mean there is a perfect smell because of variations of smell, since we tolerate bad smells, like a man passing gas on a plane or some sort of chemical leak, but we don't tolerate shoplifting or rape. Later I read a critique of this chapter by a man who specialized in the Summa Theologica, and it seems that Dawkins didn't do his homework. It would be as if I looked at an argument from On the Origin of Species, wrote a critique of it and said "therefore this disproves evolution." Oh, I have a hunch that I'd face a great deal of criticism from everyone in the biology field if I did that. So why is it that Dawkins can do the same in regards to philosophy and theology? As my brother described him: Good biologist, dick of a human being.

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