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The God Delusion
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The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' 2006 bestseller from Bantam Press, is a primary document of a real cultural moment, the commercial peak of the early twenty first century New Atheist movement, and its clearest widely read statement that a god's existence is a scientific hypothesis subject to evidence. Its strength is exactly that documentary value. Its limit is that it is a polemical work by a scientist writing outside his own field on theology and philosophy of religion, not a peer reviewed treatment of the arguments it engages; read it as evidence of the movement's rhetoric, not as an authority on the positions it criticizes.
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The God Delusion is Richard Dawkins's own primary polemical argument against theistic belief, published by Bantam Press, a mainstream trade publisher; cited here as that primary argument's own text rather than independent scholarship about it, hence the middle tier. NotesPublished 2006. Cited as the commercial peak of the New Atheist current and as its clearest statement that the existence of a god is a scientific hypothesis.
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AuthorRichard Dawkins
PublisherBantam Press
UK first edition, Bantam Press, 2 October 2006. The first American edition was Houghton Mifflin, the same year. Publication Year2006
Source Typeprimary-text
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- Beliefs & Restrictions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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