Tema: SIULAU: Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion (RUS)
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Data: 2009-01-20 09:24:30
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"The God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British 
biologist Richard Dawkins, professorial fellow of New College, 
Oxford,[1][2][3] and inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the 
Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford

In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost 
certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a 
delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of 
strong contradictory evidence. He is sympathetic to Robert Pirsig's 
observation in Lila that "when one person suffers from a delusion it is 
called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called 
religion."[4]

As of November 2007, the English version of The God Delusion had sold over 
1.5 million copies and had been translated to 31 other languages.[5] It was 
ranked #2 on the Amazon.com bestsellers' list in November 2006.[6][7] In 
early December 2006, it reached #4 in the New York Times Hardcover 
Nonfiction Best Seller list after nine weeks on the list.[8] It remained on 
the list for 51 weeks until 30 September 2007.[9] It has attracted 
widespread commentary, with several books written in response.