God Delusion By Richard Dawkins Summary

Richard Dawkins was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1941; He is one of the world’s leading scientific minds, specializing in evolutionary biology. Richard Dawkins is a successful writer, writing over eight books including the book called the God Delusion. In the prolog of this book Dawkins defends his use of the word delusion in the title of the book by quoting another author who says “When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion”. Dawkins says “atheists can be happy, balanced, moral, and intellectually fulfilled.” He then asks us to imagine a world without religion and he compares this to a New York sky line and in the picture there stands the twin towers. He says that being atheists is something to be proud of but most Americans think badly. But if people would speak out you could change their minds about atheism. He compares this to gay marriage it. …show more content…
He also says that he knows that some people would just think of his book as the work of Satan. In chapter one he talks about how confusing the word god is. He says most people see god as the all mightier creator of all. But there are those that use the word god to label the existence of the natural scientific universe. He then talks about how Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking sometimes used the word God in their own work. Many scientists believe in something natural rather than supernatural. Then he focuses on what Einstein believed. He quotes how Einstein rejected any belief in a personal God, and he tells use the criticism that this provoked from Catholics and other