I borrowed ‘The God Delusion’ from my Dad over the weekend, probably wouldn’t have bought it myself, whilst I think ‘The Selfish Gene’ is unquestionably brilliant and enjoy Dawkins’ essays I find his recent anti-religion stuff a bit too bellicose, not that I don’t agree with much of it I just prefer the Dan Dennet school of religion bashing (albeit perhaps slightly patronising).

Quick summary so far (about a third of the way through): Easy to read the arguments against God are pretty much all probabilistic (no surprise there) so far. His dismissals of a lot of theological arguments seem a bit off hand but I guess he’s treating them with the level of respect he thinks they deserve. Some reviews I’ve read have accused the book of destroying only straw men but I’ve not heard any better arguments and I’m not really inclined to think any up as I’d say the burden of proof really lies with the believers here to prove to heathens like me that God does exist.

Anyway, it’s weird how I feel kind of like I might be offending people on the tube if they see me reading the book, they might think I hate them or think their stupid or something, I mean I probably do hate them or think their stupid, (esp. if they stop walking when they get to the top of escalators or any other blocking type behaviour) but I don’t want them to know that. The result is, I’ve left the dust jacket at home.