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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Faith is just an accident of where you’re born, not a valid reason to believe in God.
Chapter 3: The Bible and other holy books aren’t true, so there’s no reason to trust anything in them.
Chapter 4: The Bible’s God is a jealous, violent deity, so you shouldn’t turn to him for moral guidance.
Chapter 5: Holy books can’t show us how to be moral, because morality shifts over time.
Chapter 6: Living beings aren’t designed from above by God, but from below by DNA.
Chapter 7: Living beings adapt to their surroundings and develop through evolution.
Chapter 8: Natural selection, the engine of evolution, explains how improbable living things arise.
Chapter 9: Our instincts for superstition and religion are probably an evolutionary by-product.
Description
Outgrowing God (2019) shows us why we should all be atheists. Revealing how holy books such as the Bible are full of untruths and historical inaccuracies, Richard Dawkins argues that we can’t take these books seriously, nor should we rely on them for moral guidance. To explain all the awesome complexity and improbability of living things, we should look to science, and specifically to the process of evolution. It is evolution, by way of natural selection, that gave rise to us and other living creatures from the bottom up.
Who Should Listen
- Agnostics who are uncertain whether to believe in God or not
- Religious people who want to understand atheism
- Atheists seeking a better grasp on arguments against believing in God