Outgrowing God

a beginner's guide

Outgrowing God

a beginner's guide
Richard Dawkins
Book - 2019

Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he<U+2019>d felt certain they must have had a designer. Learning about evolution changed his mind. Now one of the world<U+2019>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<U+2014>the improbability and beauty of the “bottom-up programming” that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings<U+2014>and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world<U+2019>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<U+2019>s abuse of Isaac to the construction of a snowflake, Outgrowing God is a concise, provocative guide to thinking for yourself.

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Main Author: Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2019]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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