THE GOD DELUSION

I read this book sometime before this mid-sems, having heard about it from a couple of friends. In plain terms, the book is simply an atheistic passage. What I anticipated was actually a debate with both sides of the stories told with no irreverence to either point of view. Richard Dawkins explores the question of God’s existence and puts forth his opinion with all the reasons he could manage to show why one should be an atheist. He defines the challenging question in the starting, also clearly defining what he is about to oppose strongly- the popular concept of God. He attacks religion throughout the book with the same vigor, criticizing the over importance it receives in the world we live in and also, listing out all the reasons why absence of religion is a must for us. He puts forth all the popular lines of thought that profess God and argues his own stand surrounding around the “Theory of Evolution”. A true Darwin follower, he forgets the fact he starts repeating his arguments after a while though they do make sense. The other negative thing the author does is making a couple of stupid, senseless arguments with the intention of making the reader believe he has not one but multiple reasons to prove his point. Removing such couple of things, the book is decently written with a sound line of thought. Dawkins is sensible enough to agree that one can’t disprove the existence of God and hence reiterates that all he’s saying is in terms of probability. The latter part of the book is where he primarily discusses religion, morality etc. and talks more in practical terms than philosophical. He points out through many appropriate examples where we tend to be mere hypocrites. While reading the book, I actually had a question to ask Dawkins: You talk about God and try to prove me that there “most-probably” doesn’t exist one and it’s really the humans who have created the entire concept. How do you defend/hold your argument(s) against the possibility that
There is in fact a super-natural entity as God, who runs the entire Universe as he wishes. He has created us and the world of ours in some fashion such that we never get to certainly assert he exists and why. All those laws of physics, all the happenings in accordance with a so-called “theory of evolution”, all the concepts like those of probability etc. are all a part of his plan to keep us busy and make us believe that we are unraveling the truth. Whereas, the supreme reality is just that we are all his robots, being programmed by him to be in a mental illusion that “we live our lives” and discover facts about this Universe.
I am sure Dawkins won’t be stupid to discard such a possibility by saying it’s very improbable! :)