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|  06-11-2014, 09:06 AM | #1 | |||
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			Re-reading 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins. It's a wonderful dual purpose book - essentially fiction, but also a very useful reference tool for looking up examples of 'Fallacies', 'Misrepresentation', 'Unsupported Presumption' 'Inappropriate Polemics', 'Deliberate Falsehoods', 'Argumentative Flaws', 'Strawman' Apologetics', and a whole host of other weird and wonderful things.  It is really good value for money, because the entire book is also a classic example of how to confuse 'God' with 'Religion' and how to deviously strengthen 'weak' argument by cloaking it with rhetoric. As a biological evolutionist Dawkins is creditable, but as a serious 'Debunker' of 'God', if this book is anything to go by, Dawkins is right up there with Victor Lustig Scientit - the unscrupulous conman who 'sold' the Eiffel Tower. I bought Dawkin's book - but I ain't buying into its content. | |||
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|  06-11-2014, 09:19 AM | #2 | |||
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			You re-read a book that you wholly disagree with and dislike? I am always doing that, its so annoying   | |||
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|  06-11-2014, 10:27 AM | #3 | |||
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			To be fair to the people with no faith the eiffle tower is real....
		 
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|  06-11-2014, 10:40 AM | #4 | |||
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