Should we have confidence in God? In this quick introduction to contemporary atheism, among the world’s greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn’t.

Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God.

Deeply impressed by the wonder and complexity of living factors, he’d felt particular they must have had a designer. Studying evolution changed his mind. Right now among the world’s best and bestselling technology communicators, Dawkins provides given readers, youthful and aged, the same opportunity about Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to rethink the big questions.

In twelve fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, Dawkins clarifies how the organic world arose with out a designer-the improbability and beauty from the “bottom-up programming” that designers an embryo or a flock of starlings-and difficulties head-on a few of the most basic assumptions made by the world’s religions: Perform you genuinely believe in God? Which? May be 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 to the construction of the snowflake, Outgrowing God is a concise, provocative instruction to thinking for yourself.

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Advance praise for Outgrowing God

“My boy came house from his first time in the 6th grade with arms outstretched plaintively demanding to know: ‘Have you ever heard of Jesus?’ We burst out laughing. Maybe not really our finest parenting second, given that he was honestly distraught. He sensed that he previously woken up one day to a world in which his peers were expressing beliefs he found frighteningly unreasonable. He started devouring books just like the God Delusion, books that helped him formulate his personal arguments and helped him stand his floor. Dawkins’s new reserve is particular in the surfaces of atheists’ pleas for humanism and rationalism precisely since it talks to the people most vulnerable to the coercive strategies of religion. As Dawkins himself says in the dedication, this book is perfect for ‘all teenagers when they’re previous enough to choose for themselves.’ It is also, I must put, because of their parents.”-Janna Levin, author of Black Gap Blues

“When someone is certainly considering atheism I tell them to learn the Bible 1st and then Dawkins. Outgrowing God-second and then the Bible!”-Penn Jillette, author of God, No!