|
Deluded by Dawkins? A Christian Response to the God Delusion | 
| Author: Andrew P. Wilson
Publisher: Kingsway Publications
Category: Book
List Price: £5.99
Buy New: £5.69
You Save: £0.30 (5%)
New (17) Used (7) from £1.70
Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 74124
Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1842913557
EAN: 9781842913550
ASIN: 1842913557
Publication Date: February 9, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
the spastic theologian July 19, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love Richard Dawkins....for he has finally said what few others have dared : that theologians are self-professed doctors of a non-existing science! And they HATE it, are positively convulsing in spastic twirls, angry as hell and fuming at the mouth....writing books left right and centre to refute Dawkins...lol! There will be whole rain-forrests felled for the amount of paper waisted on Jezuit -style arguments in pile after pile of books trying to "refute" what is so obvious and so self-evident that even a child can understand it : "God" is a thing created by mankind to ease its fear of death....a hokus -pokus thing that is used to validate both good and evil and is so totally alien to science that any well-educated intellectual(but also the sane brained layman) cannot do but refute its so called "existence"...sure, some will write books, some will lament hipocritically at the altar of their cosy institute of conservative "values" but in the privacy of their bed late at night they shiver and turn because they haven't got a clue...not a single shred of evidence....
 Inadequate and confused. June 12, 2008
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
This book contains the same old circular reasoning often used to attack arguments which demand evidence. The book is rife with assumptions. Looks like a cheap attempt to cash in on Dawkins's book even down to the blatant copy of the cover!
An embarassment to both its author and his cause. May 24, 2008
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
This desperate and intellectually dishonest attempt to refute Dawkins merely adds to his lustre and exposes the tawdriness of the oppostion. The title, no doubt assumed to be rather clever, is merely silly. So sad to see intelligence prostituted is this way.
Circular references, when he bothered. April 23, 2008
17 out of 21 found this review helpful
I was hoping for a decent rebuttal to The God Delusion when I bought this, although admittedly I didn't go so far as to reading anyone's reviews of it before hitting the BUY button. Nor did I register how many pages were in this book. Had I done so, the best I could have hoped for would be a concise counter-argument, but alas, that's not what this is.
Wilson spends the better part of his book not saying anything - he frequently peppers the text with phrases like "this is so obvious I needn't repeat it here" or "as everyone knows from reading [X]", and soforth... referring to other texts isn't so bad if you include the premise that the other texts establish... this almost seems to serve as a vehicle for selling other pro-God books, as without them you're left largely in the dark as to what this one's actually referring to.
Wilson opens the book by saying that the piece began life as an article for his church newsletter, and evolved from there. In retrospect I think it should have ended there and not harboured any further aspirations of interest or relevance. Having read it, I intend to post my copy back to the publisher and castigate them for having wasted my time.
Overwhelmingly, the weakest part of this book is that the author refers to Dawkins' statements pointing out the shortfallings of The Bible, and then as counter evidence he refers to.... THE BIBLE! So essentially, This Book is true because This Book says it is and proves it!
I read it to the end (which thankfully didn't take long) hoping to find some nugget of an argument amongst it all, but came up with nothing. Hardly a landmark rebuttal.
This really is... April 16, 2008
12 out of 23 found this review helpful
A pathetic effort - Unutterably banal in every way you could imagine. If I was able to give this no stars at all I would have. Awful, stupid, retarded argument from the greatest of fools - a xtian. Ignore this - please don't give these people your money.
|
|
|
| |
