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Author Topic:   Going to get acess to Ibooks tomorrow:any recommendations?
caffeine
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Message 22 of 27 (666137)
06-22-2012 10:10 AM
Reply to: Message 18 by Kairyu
04-18-2012 2:58 PM


The God delusion exceeds my expections a bit. Maybe it's because atheists don't refer to it often, while theists are quick to bash it. He is writing rather brief on complex matters, but overall it isn't as overly agressive as is often suggested, although I've yet to read the parts that may be more offensive to Christians. Is there anybody here who did read it?
I read the God Delusion, and was very disappointed. It doesn't seem to say much of interest, and he does the most appalling job of dealing with 'proofs' for the existence of God. Were I a Christian, I would come away convinced that he was incapable of refuting the traditional Christian arguments, and so didn't really try.
A lot of the rest of the book just seemed to be moaning and pointless anecdotes. He should have just taken the 'Why there is almost certainly no God' chapter and published it as an article about why he doesn't believe in God, and thrown the rest of the book away. I suppose it's probably made him more money than his more interesting books, though.

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caffeine
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Message 23 of 27 (667211)
07-04-2012 8:08 AM


Great Resource
On the subject of recommendations by the way, I would highly recommend you to cast your eyes at the Internet Archive. Their Ebook collection gives you an easily searchable way of getting all of Project Gutenberg's books, plus all books put online for free by American and Canadian libraries, plus a huge collection of works from natural history museums, in addition to a further 300,000 or so public domain books from elsewhere. If a book is legally available for free you can probably find it there.

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caffeine
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Message 27 of 27 (667527)
07-09-2012 6:27 AM
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07-05-2012 9:03 AM


Re: Great Resource
Sorry for the slow reply - I was away for the weekend. I don't there's any good way to search by topic, unfortunately. You can search by subject in the Advanced Search, but most entries don't have anything filled in the subject field, so that probably won't get you far. Other than that, just search all fields for the topic you're interested in and hope it's mentioned somewhere in the title or description.

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