God Is No Delusion: A Refutation of Richard Dawkins

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God Is No Delusion: A Refutation of Richard Dawkins

by Thomas Crean, O.P.

Richard Dawkins, biologist and best-selling author, claims that belief in God is a “delusion” and that “religion” harms society. Dawkins contends that he has reason and evidence on his side, and he dismisses faith as unfounded, even irrational.

Dominican Thomas Crean tackles Dawkins’ claims head-on. He presents straightforward arguments for God’s existence, and he uses reason and evidence to defend such things as miracles and the authority of the Bible. He also shows how God is important for a coherent understanding of morality, and why Dawkins’ approach winds up reducing morality to the individual’s subjective likes and dislikes. By demonstrating how Dawkins’ criticisms rest on misunderstandings, superficial readings, poor argumentation, a lack of historical awareness, and not a little prejudice, Crean reveals Dawkins to be out of his philosophical and theological depth, and his case against God to be fundamentally flawed.

"Fr. Crean is an excellent tutor. These pages took me back to my university classes in philosophy. Questions, examples, objections, definitions, qualifications, expositions of absurdities—it is all here, with splendid lucidity." — Dr. Thomas Howard | Author, On Being Catholic and Chance or Dance?

"An admirable example of the best Catholic response to Dawkins: calm and reflective, patient and charitable, not stooping to invective or getting carried away with side-issues: everything, in fact, that Dwawkin's book is not." — Dr. Joseph Shaw, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford University

Comments

[Jackson]

Forcing me to get yet another book! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

[Lucretius Jones]

Crean has the IQ of a fence post.

[Paul Boire]

I bought and had the great pleasure of reading Thomas Crean's excellent book, and found his insights on the proofs for the existence of God and aguments against the claims of materialism, precise and highly informative. This book will provide sound rational grounds and arguments that defend fully the reasonableness of faith and all this in a book that is clear and easy to follow. It is indeed a complete refutation of the sophomoric work of Dawkins.

You owe it to yourself to get this book. You'll be very glad you did.