Dawkins - The God Delusion

This is full of metaphors which help me understand. I particularly liked the idea of an arch to help understand things which seem 'irreducibly complex' from a natural selection point of view. Dawkins writes that the arch will collapse if we remove one stone, so it is hard to understand how it was ever built. This is the argument used by some Christians who find life-forms which have parts or mechanisms which don't seems to fit the bit by bit natural selection theory because the thing only functions with all the bits in place at once. Dawkins helps us to see that the arch could have been build using scaffolding, or by making a pile of stones first and removing them one by one (the same thing as scaffolding i think). All those bits could have arrived because they were attached to other parts or other functions.

I also think the wonderfulness of our being here is truly celebrated by Dawkins in this book.

He does seem a bit childishly snide of people with who he disagrees. They must have fought back somewhere.