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Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide

de Richard Dawkins

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Philosophy. Religion & Spirituality. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the worlds greatest science writers tells us why we shouldnt.

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

Includes a bonus PDF of photographs and charts


Advance praise for Outgrowing God

My son came home from his first day in the sixth grade with arms outstretched plaintively demanding to know: Have you ever heard of Jesus?  We burst out laughing. Maybe not our finest parenting moment, given that he was genuinely distraught. He felt that he had woken up one day to a world in which his peers were expressing beliefs he found frighteningly unreasonable. He began devouring books like The God Delusion, books that helped him formulate his own arguments and helped him stand his groundDawkinss new book is special in the terrain of atheists pleas for humanism and rationalism precisely since it speaks to those most vulnerable to the coercive tactics of religion. As Dawkins himself says in the dedication, this book is for all young people when theyre old enough to decide for themselves. It is also, I must add, for their parents.Janna Levin, author of Black Hole Blues
 
When someone is considering atheism I tell them to read the Bible first and then Dawkins. Outgrowing Godsecond only to the Bible!Penn Jillette, author of God, No!.… (més)
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If you want a flashback to naughts era internet atheism this book is for you. Dawkins dresses up an atheism that is really just a critique of Christianity. Islam is mentioned and judaism is implicated by default talking about the OT, but the arguments used all circle the Christian idea of God and especially those of US protestants. The same hill internet atheism died on after intelligent design-creationism was defeated, unable to move the criticism onto other religions or countries.
Very tired old arguments are recycled, much of it amounting to "did you ever notice the Bible says some crazy stuff" or "these bronze age stories don't jive with science". A more general appeal to science & secularism is made, often cribbing or quoting from other luminaries like Dennett, Sagan or Pinker. A big section is devoted to his familiar stomping ground of evolution versus creationism.
Is it too hard on this book to say it's all been covered better before? Even by Dawkins himself. Why read this when you could pick up his previous, better books? ( )
  A.Godhelm | Oct 20, 2023 |
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  Henry_Lau | Aug 23, 2023 |
5 stars
If you want to decide for yourself if what you were taught about religion were true, I’d highly recommend this book along with Stephen Hawkings’ “Brief Answers to the Big Questions” Here Dawkins goes through the biology of evolution, Hawkins goes through the cosmology of why a god is unnecessary.
Unfortunately I think it will be largely ignored, I think it’s very hard to persuade superstitious people to have the courage to give up their superstitions, especially today when so many unscientific theories abound both on the internet and in politics. My favorite chapters are the first part of the book where he takes on the bible, philosophy and how myths start.

Eye-witnesses photographed what they thought was the face of Satan in the smoky dust clouds hanging over New York that day.


We want to see patterns, it’s how we order the world, even when there really is no pattern to see.

I love the Mark Twain quotes

Mormonism is another relatively recent cult which, unlike the John Frum or cargo cults, or the ‘Elvis is Risen’ cult, has spread all over the world and become rich and powerful. The founder was a man from New York State called Joseph Smith. He claimed that in 1823 an angel called Moroni told him where to dig up some golden plates which had ancient writing on them. Smith said he did so, and translated the writing from an old Egyptian language into English. He did this with the aid of a magic stone in a magic hat. When he looked in the hat, the stone revealed to him the meaning of the words. He published his English ‘translation’ in 1830. Weirdly, the English was not the English of his own time but the English of more than two centuries earlier, the English of the King James Bible. Mark Twain joked that if you cut out every repetition of ‘It came to pass’, the Book of Mormon would shrink to a pamphlet.


Mark Twain is supposed to have said: ‘A lie can spread half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.’ And not only malicious lies, but good stories that aren’t true but are amusing and fun to recount, especially if you were told them in good faith and don’t positively know they’re untrue. Or stories that, if not amusing, are spookily uncanny – another reason why so many are passed on.


Like so many lies spread that through social media and news sources that offer no real facts only opinion. ( )
  kevn57 | Dec 8, 2021 |
A book written for children but also for the sort of people who read at the level of Christian self-help books. Because of this, it is a lot less erudite than "The Magic of Reality", also written for children, this book is more conversational and simpler.

It is in just two parts: the religion part and the evolution part. The religion part covers just what one would expect from Dawkins. "atheists" just go one step further than those who practice a religion: a religious believer rejects almost all the gods that have ever been invented, an atheist reject _all_. The origins of the New Testament, the many books that didn't make it, and the ahistorical nature, and contradictions among those that did are discussed. The "Old Testament", as a bunch of myths is discussed; the emergence of modern myths and religions, Mormonism, cargo cults, and so forth are shown as likely parallels. The behavior of the character of God and Jesus in the books in which they figure is discussed; God is shown to be really rather nasty. Dawkins actually pulls his punches here a bit; James Morrow's "Bible Stories for Adults" goes a lot further. The uses of religion as a guide to morality are dismissed. Finally, a sort of humanistic ethics is addressed, along with a discussion of the importance of prevailing opinion in infuencing the thoughts of even highly intelligent and thoughtful people.

The second part is about evolution. Evolution and religion are two of Dawkins' favorite subjects. He always ties them together with a logical argument that he believes demonstrates that a belief in evolution should make one an atheist. I believe in evolution and I'm an atheist, but I don't accept his logical argument. It seems like he hasn't read enough Raymond Smullyan and fun exercises in logic and self-reference. However the evolution part is still good.

The evolution part starts with a discussion of the utter amazingness of the natural world. Among other things, it directs to a youtube video of an octopus suddenly revealing itself in a threatening display from a situation of perfect camouflage. This is absolutely astonishing. In the same chapter, though, Dawkins points out that the mechanism of evolution entails enormous suffering; those who believe in an omnipotent god have to find an explanation for this suffering, those who don't, don't. He also discusses evidence for the path-dependence of evolution: the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the human blind spot (there is no equivalent octopus blind-spot). What comes next is a generic argument against the necessity of an intelligent designer and an explanation of the basic principles of natural selection as well as the competing demands of the evolutionary environment. Next up is the application of local rules to form complex structures, demonstrating that just because a thing _looks_ designed doesn't mean it _is_ designed. A discussion of chemistry, catalysts, and our sense of smell lays the groundwork for the next chapter, about DNA and embryology. Dawkins ventures into evolutionary psychology with a discussion of the evolution of niceness and of religion and his notion of meme. The final chapter is about using science to interrogate reality. In this, Dawkins points out that the _mechanisms_ of science may be common-sense refined, but it's conclusions do not resemble common sense at all.

Dawkins is really good at recycling his own metaphors in new contexts; so there is nothing in this book that hasn't appeared in some other of his books at some time. However, as always, he writes well and his favorite metaphors do convey his points.

I would have given the book three stars; but Dawkins is doing a special service by trying to reach out to those people who read the Christian self help books, so I give it four.

In tone this book is distinctly better than Neil de Grasse Tyson's "Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry", because Dawkins is so much less full of himself, or maybe some part of his particular education taught him to work harder to appear less full of himself. ( )
  themulhern | Sep 16, 2020 |
When it comes to Dawkins it's impossible for me to be objective. Had the book been about the history of paperweights or the various bureaucratic processes of east Asian countries in the 18th century I still would've loved it and would've gave it 5 stars as well.

As it goes, the book is about the topics Dawkins knows most about: biology and atheism. Those happen to also be among my favorite topics to read about, so it was a match made in... dammit, I can't say "heaven".

The book is about how illogical many religious beliefs are, the contradictions the bible holds (among other illogical issues), theories on why humans adopted and held religious beliefs for millennia, a short primer on evolution to back up atheism and why we need to "outgrow" the need for a deity and adopt a rational view of life through the lens of science. It's short, kid friendly, narrated by Dawkins in the case of the audio-book, so yeah - read it! :D ( )
  parzivalTheVirtual | Mar 22, 2020 |
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Philosophy. Religion & Spirituality. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the worlds greatest science writers tells us why we shouldnt.

Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. 

Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, hed felt certain they must have had a designer. Learning about evolution changed his mind. Now one of the worlds 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 designerthe improbability and beauty of the bottom-up programming that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlingsand challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the worlds 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 Abrahams abuse of Isaac to the construction of a snowflake, Outgrowing God is a concise, provocative guide to thinking for yourself.

Includes a bonus PDF of photographs and charts


Advance praise for Outgrowing God

My son came home from his first day in the sixth grade with arms outstretched plaintively demanding to know: Have you ever heard of Jesus?  We burst out laughing. Maybe not our finest parenting moment, given that he was genuinely distraught. He felt that he had woken up one day to a world in which his peers were expressing beliefs he found frighteningly unreasonable. He began devouring books like The God Delusion, books that helped him formulate his own arguments and helped him stand his groundDawkinss new book is special in the terrain of atheists pleas for humanism and rationalism precisely since it speaks to those most vulnerable to the coercive tactics of religion. As Dawkins himself says in the dedication, this book is for all young people when theyre old enough to decide for themselves. It is also, I must add, for their parents.Janna Levin, author of Black Hole Blues
 
When someone is considering atheism I tell them to read the Bible first and then Dawkins. Outgrowing Godsecond only to the Bible!Penn Jillette, author of God, No!.

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