In his book The God Delusion, Dawkins argued that religious faith is “persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence”, and thus delusional.

Freakonomics coauthor Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, and publicly admits to being bewildered by how The God Delusion could be a best-seller: “I ...

In his book The God Delusion, Dawkins argued that religious faith is “persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence”, and thus delusional. You may like ...

The God Delusion Richard Dawkins, . . Houghton Mifflin, $28 (406pp) ISBN 978-0-618-68000-9 ...

Theism, “the belief in a god or gods,” is in the history of ancient civilizations. God featured in the works of many English writers from Christopher Marlow to T.S Elliott.

Pinker, of course, is not the first to connect – or equate – religion with delusion. The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is probably the most famous contemporary proponent of this view ...

S een from a distance of nearly two decades, the New Atheism craze has finally begun to come into focus. Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion (2006), Sam Harris’s The End of Faith (2004) and ...

Just as God’s angels are ministers of his loving care, so Satan’s agents—demons—work unceasingly to do his bidding. To deny or ignore the existence of the enemy and his minions is to lay ...

Even if the God hypothesis were confirmed, it offers little comfort to believers. Nagel delivers the throwaway line early: “The purposes of such a [hypothetical] creator remain obscure, given ...