Outgrowing God : a beginner's guide
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
New York : Random House, 2019.
Physical Description
294 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Summary
One of the world's bestselling science communicators, Dawkins gives readers an opportunity to rethink the big questions. In 12 fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, he explains how the natural world arose without a designer--the improbability and beauty of the "bottom-up programming" that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings--and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world's religions.religions.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- So many gods!
- But is it true?
- Myths and how they start
- The good book?
- Do we need God in order to be good?
- How do we decide what is good?
- Surely there must be a designer
- Steps towards improbability
- Crystals and jigsaw puzzles
- Bottom up or top down?
- Did we evolve to be religious?
- We evolve to be nice?
- Taking courage from science.