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یادداشت ها Preface 1 Wendy Kaminer, 'The last taboo: why America needs atheism', New Republic, 14 Oct. 1996; http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/kaminer.htm. 2 Dr Zoe Hawkins, Dr Beata Adams and Dr Paul St John Smith, personal communication. Chapter 1: A deeply religious non-believer Deserved respect 3 The television documentary of which the interview was a part was accompanied by a book (Winston 2005). 4 Dennett (2006). Undeserved respect 5 The full speech is transcribed in Adams (2003) as 'Is there an artificial God?' 6 Perica (2002). See also http://www.historycooperative.org/ journals/ahr/108.5/br_151.html. 7 'Dolly and the cloth heads', in Dawkins (2003). 8 http://scotus.ap.org/scotus/04-1084p.zo.pdf. 9 R. Dawkins, 'The irrationality of faith', New Statesman (London), 31 March 1989. 10 Columbus Dispatch, 19 Aug. 2005. 11 Los Angeles Times, 10 April 2006. 12 http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-society-ofdenmark- used-fake.html. 13 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4686536.stm; http://www.neandernews.com/?cat=6. 14 Independent, 5 Feb. 2006. 15 Andrew Mueller, 'An argument with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12-16. N O T E S TO PP. 1 - 5 3 389 Chapter 2: The God Hypothesis 16 Mitford and Waugh (2001). Polytheism 17 http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608b.htm. 18 http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm?NF=l. Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America 19 Congressional Record, 16 Sept. 1981. 20 http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli.html. 21 Giles Fraser, 'Resurgent religion has done away with the country vicar', Guardian, 13 April 2006. 22 Robert I. Sherman, in Free Inquiry 8: 4, Fall 1988, 16. 23 N. Angier, 'Confessions of a lonely atheist', New York Times Magazine, 14 Jan. 2001: http://www.geocities.com/mindstuff/Angier.html. 24 http://www.fsgp.org/adsn.html. 25 An especially bizarre case of a man being murdered simply because he was an atheist is recounted in the newsletter of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia for March/April 2006. Go to http://www.fsgp.org/newsletters/newsletter_ 2006_0304.pdf and scroll down to 'The murder of Larry Hooper'. 26 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2001/ll/18/ stories/2001111800070400.htm. The poverty of agnosticism 27 Quentin de la Bedoyere, Catholic Herald, 3 Feb. 2006. 28 Carl Sagan, 'The burden of skepticism', Skeptical Inquirer 12, Fall 1987. 29 I discussed this case in Dawkins (1998). 30 T. H. Huxley, 'Agnosticism' (1889), repr. in Huxley (1931). The complete text of 'Agnosticism' is also available at http:// www. infidels. org/library/historical/thomas_huxley/ huxley_wace/part_02.html. 31 Russell, 'Is there a God?' (1952), repr. in Russell (1997b). 32 Andrew Mueller, 'An argument with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12-16. 33 New York Times, 29 Aug. 2005. See also Henderson (2006). 390 T HE GO D D E L U S I O N 34 Henderson (2006). 35 http://www.lulu.com/content/267888. The Great Prayer Experiment 36 H. Benson et al., 'Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients', American Heart Journal 151: 4, 2006, 934-42. 37 Richard Swinburne, in Science and Theology News, 7 April 2006, http://www.stnews.org/Commentary-2772.htm. 38 New York Times, 11 April 2006. The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists 39 In court cases, and books such as Ruse (1982). His article in Playboy appeared in the April 2006 issue. 40 Jerry Coyne's reply to Ruse appeared in the August 2006 issue of Playboy. 41 Madeleine Bunting, Guardian, 27 March 2006. 42 Dan Dennett's reply appeared in the Guardian, 4 April 2006. 43 http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/03/the_ dawkinsdennett_boogeyman.php; http://scienceblogs.com/ pharyngula/2006/02/our_double_standard.php; http://scienceblogs. com/pharyngula/2006/02/the_rusedennett_feud.php. Little green men 44 http://vo.obspm.fr/exoplanetes/encyclo/encycl.html. 45 Dennett (1995). Chapter 3: Arguments for God's existence The ontological argument and other a priori arguments 46 http://www.iep.utm.edU/o/ont-arg.htm. Gasking's 'proof is at http://www.uq.edu.au/~pdwgrey/pubs/gasking.html. The argument from personal 'experience' 47 The whole subject of illusions is discussed by Richard Gregory in a series of books including Gregory (1997). 48 My own attempt at spelling out the explanation is on pp. 268-9 of Dawkins (1998). 49 http://www.sofc.org/Spirituality/s-of-fatima.htm. N O T E S TO P P . 5 3 - 1 3 1 391 The argument from scripture 50 Tom Flynn, 'Matthew vs. Luke', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2004, 34-45; Robert Gillooly, 'Shedding light on the light of the world', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2004, 27-30. 51 Erhman (2006). See also Ehrman (2003a, b). The argument from admired religious scientists 52 Beit-Hallahmi and Argyle (1997). 53 E. J. Larson and L. Witham, 'Leading scientists still reject God', Nature 394, 1998, 313. 54 http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9610/reeves.html gives a particularly interesting analysis of historical trends in American religious opinion by Thomas C. Reeves, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, based on Reeves (1996). 55 http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/3506.asp. 56 R. Elisabeth Cornwell and Michael Stirrat, manuscript in preparation, 2006. 57 P. Bell, 'Would you believe it?', Mensa Magazine, Feb. 2002, 12-13. Chapter 4: Why there almost certainly is no God The Ultimate Boeing 747 58 An exhaustive review of the provenance, usages and quotations of this analogy is given, from a creationist point of view, by Gert Korthof, at http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/kortho46a.htm. Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser 59 Adams (2002), p. 99. My 'Lament for Douglas', written the day after his death, is reprinted as the Epilogue to The Salmon of Doubt, and also in A Devil's Chaplain, which also has my eulogy at his memorial meeting in the Church of St Martin-in-the- Fields. 60 Interview in Der Spiegel, 26 Dec. 2005. 61 Susskind (2006: 17). The worship of gaps 62 Behe (1996). 63 http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/design2/article.html. 392 THE G O D D E L U S I O N 64 This account of the Dover trial, including the quotations, is from A. Bottaro, M. A. Inlay and N. J. Matzke, 'Immunology in the spotlight at the Dover "Intelligent Design" trial', Nature Immunology 7, 2006, 433-5. 65 J. Coyne, 'God in the details: the biochemical challenge to evolution', Nature 383, 1996, 227-8. The article by Coyne and me, 'One side can be wrong', was published in the Guardian, 1 Sept. 2005: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/ feature/story/0,13026,1559743,00.html. The quotation from the 'eloquent blogger' is at http:// www.religionisbullshit.net/blog/2005_09_01_archive.php. 66 Dawkins (1995). The antbropic principle: planetary version 61 Carter admitted later that a better name for the overall principle would be 'cognizability principle' rather than the already entrenched term 'anthropic principle': B. Carter, 'The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 310, 1983, 347-63. For a book-length discussion of the anthropic principle, see Barrow and Tipler (1988). 68 Comins (1993). 69 I spelled this argument out more fully in The Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins 1986). The anthropic principle: cosmological version 70 Murray Gell-Mann, quoted by John Brockman on the 'Edge' website, http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/smolin.html. 71 Ward (1996: 99); Polkinghorne (1994: 55). An interlude at Cambridge 72 J. Horgan, 'The Templeton Foundation: a skeptic's take', Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 April 2006. See also http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/horgan06/horgan06_index.html. 73 P. B. Medawar, review of The Phenomenon of Man, repr. in Medawar (1982: 242). 74 Dennett (1995: 155). N O T E S TO PP. 13 3 - 2 3 2 393 Chapter 5: The roots of religion The Darwinian imperative 75 Quoted in Dawkins (1982: 30). 76 K. Sterelny, 'The perverse primate', in Grafen and Ridley (2006: 213-23). Group selection 77 N. A. Chagnon, 'Terminological kinship, genealogical relatedness and village fissioning among the Yanomamo Indians', in Alexander and Tinkle (1981: ch. 28). 78 C. Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: Appleton, 1871), vol. 1, 156. Religion as a by-product of something else 79 Quoted in Blaker (2003: 7). Psychologically primed for religion 80 See e.g. Buss (2005). 81 Deborah Keleman, 'Are children "intuitive theists"?', Psychological Science 15: 5, 2004, 295-301. 82 Dennett (1987). 83 Guardian, 31 Jan. 2006. 84 Smythies (2006). 85 http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/14223.htm. Chapter 6: The roots of morality: why are we good? 86 The movie itself, which is very good, can be obtained at http://www.thegodmovie.com/index.php. A case study in the roots of morality 87 M. Hauser and P. Singer, 'Morality without religion', Free Inquiry 26: 1, 2006, 18-19. If there is no God, why be good? 88 Dostoevsky (1994: bk 2, ch. 6, p. 87). 89 Hinde (2002). See also Singer (1994), Grayling (2003), Glover (2006). 394 THE G O D D E L U S I O N Chapter 7: The 'Good' Book and the changing moral Zeitgeist 90 Lane Fox (1992); Berlinerblau (2005). 91 Holloway (1999, 2005). Richard Holloway's 'recovering Christian' line is in a book review in the Guardian, 15 Feb. 2003: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/ 0,6121,894941,00.html. The Scottish journalist Muriel Gray wrote a beautiful account of my Edinburgh dialogue with Bishop Holloway in the (Glasgow) Herald: http://www.sundayherald.com/44517. The Old Testament 92 For a frightening collection of sermons by American clergymen, blaming hurricane Katrina on human 'sin', see http://universist.org/neworleans.htm. 93 Pat Robertson, reported by the BBC at http://news.bbc.co.Uk/2/hi/americas/4427144.stm. Is the New Testament any better? 94 R. Dawkins, 'Atheists for Jesus', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2005, 9-10. 95 Julia Sweeney is also right on target when she briefly mentions Buddhism. Just as Christianity is sometimes thought to be a nicer, gentler religion than Islam, Buddhism is often cracked up to be the nicest of all. But the doctrine of demotion on the reincarnation ladder because of sins in a past life is pretty unpleasant. Julia Sweeney: 'I went to Thailand and happened to visit a woman who was taking care of a terribly deformed boy. I said to his caretaker, "It's so good of you to be taking care of this poor boy." She said, "Don't say 'poor boy,' he must have done something terrible in a past life to be born this way." ' 96 For a thoughtful analysis of techniques used by cults, see Barker (1984). More journalistic accounts of modern cults are given by Lane (1996) and Kilduff and Javers (1978). 97 Paul Vallely and Andrew Buncombe, 'History of Christianity: Gospel according to Judas', Independent, 7 April 2006. 98 Vermes (2000). Love thy neighbour 99 Hartung's paper was originally published in Skeptic 3: 4, 1995, but is now most readily available at http://www.lrainc.com/ NOTES TO PP. 2 3 7 - 2 8 5 395 swtaboo/taboos/ltnOl .html. 100 Smith (1995). 101 Guardian, 12 March 2002: http://books.guardian.co.uk/ departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,664342,00.html. 102 N. D. Glenn, 'Interreligious marriage in the United States: patterns and recent trends', Journal of Marriage and the Family 44: 3, 1982, 555-66. The moral Zeitgeist 103 http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/newlOc.html. 104 Huxley (1871). 105 http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/american-authors/ 19th-century/abraham-lincoln/the-writings-of-abraharnlincoln- 04/. What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren't they atheists? 106 Bullock (1991). 107 Bullock (2005). 108 http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/1997/march97/holocaust.html. This article by Richard E. Smith, originally published in Freethought Today, March 1997, has a large number of relevant quotations from Hitler and other Nazis, giving their sources. Unless otherwise stated, my quotations are from Smith's article. 109 http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mischedj/ca_hitler.htrnl. 110 Bullock (2005: 96). 111 Adolf Hitler, speech of 12 April 1922. In Baynes (1942: 19-20). 112 Bullock (2005: 43). 113 This quotation, and the following one, are from Anne Nicol Gaylor's article on Hitler's religion, http://www. ffrf. org/fttoday/back/hitler. html. 114 http://www.contra-mundum.org/schirrmacher/NS_Religion.pdf. Chapter 8: What's wrong with religion? Why be so hostile? Fundamentalism and the subversion of science 115 From 'What is true?', ch. 1.2 of Dawkins (2003). 116 Both my quotations from Wise come from his contribution to the 1999 book In Six Days, an anthology of essays by young-Earth creationists (Ashton 1999). 396 THE G O D D E L U S I O N | |