Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide Audiobook (Free)
- Richard Dawkins
- 6 h 39 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2019-10-08
Summary:
Should we believe in God? In this quick introduction to modern atheism, one of the world’s greatest technology writers tells us why we shouldn’t.
Richard Dawkins was 15 when he stopped believing in God.
Deeply impressed by the beauty and intricacy of living things, he’d felt specific they must have had a designer. Studying evolution transformed his mind. Today one of the world’s greatest and bestselling science communicators, Dawkins provides given readers, youthful and older, the same opportunity about Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Instruction to rethink the best questions.
In twelve fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, Dawkins explains how the natural world arose with out a designer-the improbability and beauty from the “bottom-up programming” that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings-and problems head-on some of the most simple assumptions made by the world’s religions: Perform you genuinely believe in God? Which? Is the Bible a “Good Book”? Is following a religious beliefs necessary, and even likely, to make people good one to the other? Dissecting from Abraham’s misuse of Isaac towards the construction of a snowflake, Outgrowing God is certainly a concise, provocative guide to thinking for yourself.
Includes a bonus PDF of photos and charts
Advance compliment for Outgrowing God
“My boy came house from his 1st time in the sixth grade with hands outstretched plaintively demanding to learn: ‘Have got you ever heard of Jesus?’ We burst out laughing. Maybe not really our finest parenting instant, considering that he was genuinely distraught. He sensed that he previously woken up one day to a world where his peers were expressing beliefs he discovered frighteningly unreasonable. He started devouring books like The God Delusion, books that helped him formulate his own quarrels and helped him stand his ground. Dawkins’s new reserve is special in the landscape of atheists’ pleas for humanism and rationalism precisely since it talks to the people most susceptible to the coercive methods of religious beliefs. As Dawkins himself says in the commitment, this book is for ‘all teenagers when they’re outdated enough to choose for themselves.’ Additionally it is, I must add more, because of their parents.”-Janna Levin, author of Black Hole Blues
“When someone is definitely taking into consideration atheism I inform them to read the Bible first and then Dawkins. Outgrowing God-second only to the Bible!”-Penn Jillette, author of God, No!
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