Outgrowing God
A Beginner's Guide
It was described as a newer, shorter book aimed at younger readers, organized in two halves that first debunk religion and then explain scientific explanations, and it was highlighted as part of a translation project to distribute it worldwide.
The new book out, Growing God is sort of aimed at a younger audience and I like to think it could be read at any age but being aimed at a younger audience is a bit shorter and perhaps a bit easier to...
— Episode: #1366 - Richard Dawkins
Episode: #1366 - Richard Dawkins
It was described as a newer, shorter book aimed at younger readers, organized in two halves that first debunk religion and then explain scientific explanations, and it was highlighted as part of a translation project to distribute it worldwide.
The new book out, Growing God is sort of aimed at a younger audience and I like to think it could be read at any age but being aimed at a younger audience is a bit shorter and perhaps a bit easier to follow.
In Outgrowing God I call it something in the air which of course doesn't explain anything but what I mean by that is that it's not literally hovering in the air but it's a collection of conversations between people, dinner party conversations, parliamentary decisions congressional debates judicial decisions by judges, juries, newspaper articles journalism.
Well it's for young people. I'd originally wanted to write a book for the young children and publishers didn't want to do that. So they kept pushing the age range up and so it stabilised at about 15 but I think 14...
It's in two halves. The first half is debunking God and it begins with what we were talking about earlier. There's a number of different gods and then moves on to the Bible and how unreliable the source of information it is and both the Old Testament and the New Testament get a chapter each. And then there's a couple of chapters on morality ... And then the second half of the book is about science ...