Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion

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Teenagers would be very intrigued by reading The God Delusion because it incites critical thinking in an articulate manner and captures the beauty of his arguments and the universe in a humorous style. The God Delusion lays out a scientific case on why there is most likely no God and why the world we be better off without religion. Richard Dawkins is able to articulate his arguments in a way that just flows off the page. He takes high level vocabulary and concepts and makes them easily comprehendible to the average reader. A prime example of this is when he explains evolution compared to creationism he uses the analogy of a sheer cliff face and creationism being equivalent to a person jumping from the bottom to the top in a single leap. Compared

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