Chapter 1: The Extremely Religious Unbeliever
Believe in Faith | Religion Conquers All

Chapter 2 New Hypothesis
Is God an Illusion? | Old Testament | Polytheism | Monotheism | Secularism_ The Founding Fathers of America and Religion | Agnostic, Another Name for Infidel? | Is There Religion Beyond Science? | The Power of Prayer | “The Enemy of My Enemy is Our Friend” | Aliens and God

Chapter 3 Arguments in Defence of the Existence of God
Thomas Aquinas's 'Proof' | Ontological and Deductive Arguments | The Beauty Argument | The Personal 'Experience' Argument | The Biblical Argument | The Devout Scientist Argument | Pascal's Wager | Bayes' Argument

Chapter 4: Why It's Almost Certain That There Is No God
The Boeing 747 and the Junkyard | Natural Selection as a Stimulant | Irreducible Complexity | The Cult of Niches | The Humanistic Principle: Planetary Edition | The Humanistic Principle: Cosmic Edition

Chapter 5: The Roots of Religion
Religion: A Darwinian Shift? | The Direct Benefits of Religion | Group Selection | Religion as a Byproduct | Psychological Preparation for Religion | Memes: Units of Cultural Inheritance | Cargo Cult Rituals

Chapter 6: The Roots of Morality: Why Are We Good?
God and Goodness | Darwinism and the Origins of Morality | The Roots of Morality: Case Studies | If There Is No God, Why Strive to Be Good?

Chapter 7: 'Good' Books and the Changing Zeitgeist
Strange Books｜Old Testament｜New Testament｜Love Thy Neighbor｜Moral Zeitgeist｜Were Hitler and Stalin Atheists?

Chapter 8: Why I Am Hostile to Religion
Letters from a Physicist | Fundamentalism and Science | The Dark Side of Absolutism | Faith and Homosexuality | Faith and the Dignity of Human Life | The Great Beethoven Error | Moderate Faith Fuels Fanaticism

Chapter 9: Escape from Religion
Mortara's Anecdote | Physical and Mental Abuse | The Choice Is in the Child | What Happens at School | Freedom for Children | The Bible Through Literature

Chapter 10: What God Gives Us
A Gap Made by God | Imaginary Friend | Comfort | Inspiration | The World Seen Through a Burqa

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Doubt the existence of God, focus on human power! - A masterpiece of the century that explores the human nature and values ​​hidden behind the name of God!

Did God really design the universe and create humans? After Darwin's theory of evolution, creationism seemed to lose its rational basis.
However, creationism still maintains its omnipotent power by accepting scientific rationality and advocating intelligent design.

The following are the results of a public opinion poll conducted by the American media, which prides itself on being the most rational and progressive country.
"Sixty-two percent of Americans do not believe in evolution, and 53 percent believe the Earth is 6,000 years old, the age of Adam." (2006, American media outlet) "More than 60 percent of Americans believe that creationism should be taught in public schools alongside evolution." (Newsweek, 2004)
What does this shocking result mean? Richard Dawkins, a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and a leading figure in modern intellectual debate, said, "In America, atheists have a lower status than Jews, blacks, and homosexuals!"
He published "The God Delusion" to criticize America's fanaticism and boost the self-esteem of atheists.
This book, which caused a stir in the scientific and religious communities upon its publication, is still a New York Times bestseller.
Moreover, after this book, a flood of religious criticism books, such as “God is Not Great,” were published in the United States, and now the United States is engulfed in the heat of a heated debate about the “existence of God.”
Dawkins's "The God Delusion" logically criticizes creationism, which holds that the complexity of the biological world was already created by God, point by point, using scientific, sociological, and historical examples.
From the hypothesis of a supernatural intelligence to the primordial universe created by God, Dawkins sharply exposes the truth and falsehood of creationism by presenting counterarguments based on natural selection on the major issues of creationism.
In addition, he ruthlessly destroys various arguments in favor of the existence of God, such as Thomas Aquinas's recursive 'proof', St. Anselm's deductive argument, the argument from beauty and personal 'experience', the argument from the Bible, and Pascal's wager, through historical evidence and scientific logic, and clearly asserts that these arguments are illusions caused by false beliefs.
Above all, what Dawkins focuses on in this book is the social function of religion.
For a long time, religion has been a dominant ideology for the strong and a source of comfort and hope for the weak.
(This is the contradiction of religion distorted by humans.
(A life of hurting through religion and being comforted through religion!) However, Dawkins argues that a society after the disappearance of God is actually more hopeful.
"The God Delusion" meticulously examines how human dignity has been destroyed before God, citing examples such as constant war, poverty, child abuse, and discrimination against homosexuals, all of which were brought about by false beliefs.
He also conveys the message that humans can be moral and passionate enough without God, citing experimental cases that show that praying for comfort in life can actually be stressful, and scientific research that shows that the human brain is programmed to behave morally.


“Criticizing religion is not about moral depravity, but about finding innate human values ​​such as compassion and love.” Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass

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The latest work by Richard Dawkins, author of "The Selfish Gene," which caused a stir in the scientific and religious world!

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist who has extensive experience in all scientific fields, including animal behavior, molecular biology, population genetics, and embryology.
He is also an influential writer, having recently been voted the world's greatest intellectual, following Noam Chomsky and Umberto Eco, in a poll conducted by the British magazine Prospect.

In his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins argued that humans (individuals) are nothing more than puppets of genes. He became a figure of the century who stirred up the scientific community for the next 30 years, and his book, The Blind Watchmaker, which revealed the conflict between creationism and evolution, won the Royal Society of London's Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literature Award.

If "The Blind Watchmaker" is a book that scientifically criticizes the main creationist theories about God, "The God Delusion" can be said to be a book that shows that human life is sufficiently hopeful even without religion.
In this book, as befitting a world-renowned scholar, he crosses over science, religion, philosophy, and history, historically examining the theoretical contradictions of creationism and the evils of religion brought about by false beliefs, and strongly asserts that the alternative to future society lies not in religion but in humanity itself.


“An important scientific book and a great work of literature that everyone in the 21st century, from atheists to monks, should read!” Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize winner in Physics

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Imagine a world without God! - Dawkins' core message refuting the existence of God.

* Did God create the universe?
According to creationism, everything in the universe (including us) was intentionally created by a supernatural, superhuman intelligence.
However, a creative intelligence of sufficient complexity to design something can only emerge as the end product of an expanding, progressive evolutionary process.
That is, the most evolved being, the creative intelligence, could not have been entrusted with the task of designing the universe, as it had to emerge last in the universe.


* Does God exist?
The existence of God is merely a hypothesis and a subject of argument.
The 'omnipotent' God claimed by Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc. is a 'story' that has not been scientifically verified.

* But aren't there many people who believe in religion?
Many people believe in religion because they have been taught it through our education system and do not know that non-belief is an alternative.
We simply believe that we 'believe in something'.


* Does prayer work?
In April 2006, a study was conducted on the effectiveness of intercessory prayer (praying for others).
It was found that there was no difference between patients who received prayer and those who did not.
What was surprising was that patients who knew they had benefited from prayer suffered from more severe complications than those who did not.
Why is this? Patients who knew they were being prayed for were more likely to experience stress.

* If God disappears, won't human society become corrupt?
We continue to witness the harm caused by false beliefs throughout world history: endless wars and poverty, child abuse, and violations of the rights of homosexuals.
In this way, historically, too many human dignity has been destroyed before God.
Additionally, many scientists now argue that the human brain is programmed to behave morally.
In this way, humans are sufficiently moral in themselves and can offer themselves hope.
Therefore, if God disappears, humans will rely more on humans and seek their original values ​​of love and compassion.
In the absence of God, humans will become more passionate and spiritually evolved!