The God Delusion tries to persuade the reader that there is no God, because some very intelligent scientists from Charles Darwin to Albert Einstein say so. To understand the science behind their theories, one needs to have several degrees in education and big thinkingness. So basically the average person will not really understand the science behind the God Delusion, but must just have faith in the words.
A theory about the universe:
... it postulates a vast and rapidly growing number of universes, existing in parallel and mutually undetectable except through the narrow porthole of quantum-mechanical experiments.
Quoting from Steve Grand:
Think of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren't there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you.
Another way in which the reader is persuaded that there is no God is by looking at certain texts from the Bible and Koran, which comes across as ridiculous, but I guess some people just have faith in the words.
Looking at the book of Paul:
Adam, the supposed perpetrator of the original sin, never existed in the first place: an awkward fact - excusably unknown to Paul but presumable known to an omniscient God (and Jesus, if you believe he was God?) - which fundamentally undermines the premise of the whole tortuously nasty theory. Oh, but of course, the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic? So, in order to impress himself, Jesus had himself tortured and executed, in vicarious punishment for a symbolic sin committed by a non-existent individual?
Although the claimed author of the book, Richard Dawkins, does have his own input into the book, most of the book is made up of quotes from famous scientists, philosophers and theologians.
Some of Dawkins' own quotes include:
Eukaryotic Cells
No such thing. There are such things Eucaryotic Cells, but it looks like Dawkins is making up words now.
Memeplexes
A meme is a word made up by Dawkins which is about an idea or behaviour being passed on from person to person within a culture. The plexes bit he just added on, so that he can claim to have thought of another new word.
So now we have proof that he's just making up things in this book.
Doctor Dawkins explains how doctors think:
We doctors call that kind of linkage linkage.
So why should we believe the God Delusion? Who created the God Delusion? Apparently it was somebody called Richard Dawkins. But surely the main question we should be asking is who created Richard Dawkins? Is he real? Have you ever met Richard Dawkins? Do you know of anybody who has met Richard Dawkins? You possibly have a friend who knows somebody who says they know somebody who once went to a lecture of his. Do we just take their word for it? But so many of us have see Richard Dawkins on TV. Yes, but I've also seen Jesus on TV. Who am I to believe?
Who could have come up with all these thoughts, quotes and ideas put them all together and sell them as thought provoking philosophy? Who would be so pissed off with God that they spend most of their life looking at the universe in order to create some kind of doubt about His existence. I think the clue is in the name "Dawkins", whose name is part derived from Charles Darwin and...
Dick.
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