For those of us who teach philosophy of religion the arrival of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion was a God-send. It stirred up the God-discussion, at least from a professor's point of view. Things were getting a bit boring. But then in road "The Four Horsemen!" (Dawkins has referred to four members of the New Atheist movement - himself, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens - as "The Four Horsemen", alluding to the biblical "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.)
It's hard to say what other real impact The God Delusion has made. Even though some people buy books like this, it's hard to say how many actually read them. (This was discovered with the book The Closing of the American Mind, which was called the book everybody bought but nobody actually read.) When I ask my philosophy of religion students the question "Have you heard of Richard Dawkins?" only 5% say "Yes."
Here are the posts I made on my reading of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion.
God Delusion #1
God Delusion #2 - Einstein was a atheist
God Delusion #3 - Emerson
God Delusion #4 - Anachronistic Displacement
God Delusion #5 - The Fallacy of Suppressed Evidence
God Delusion # 6 - A False Dichotomy
God Delusion # 7 - The Mind Reader
God Delusion # 8 - Causality in Esse
God Delusion #9 - The NYT Book Review
God Delusion #10 - Dawkins' Straw Men Exposed
God Delusion #11 - Terry Eagleton rips Dawkins
God Delusion #12 - Wired
God Delusion #13 - The Ontological Argument
God Delusion #14: More Anachronistic "Logic"
God Delusion #15: Religious experience and the Human Brain
God Delusion #16: Dawkins vs. Collins
God Delusion #17: Theism Causes Wars?
Anti "God Delusion" #1: Francis Collins on the Moral Law as Key to the Meaning of the Universe
God Delusion #18: All Psychologists Doubt Religious Experience?
God Delusion #19: H. Allen Orr Finds Dawkins's GD Horrific
God Delusion #20: Scot McKnight on Dawkins
God Delusion #21: P.Z. Myers' Tries to Save Dawkins By Telling a Fable
God Delusion #22: Dawkins as Bible Scholar: Part 1
God Delusion #23: Dawkins as Bible Scholar: Part 2
God Delusion #24: Dawkins vs. David Sloan Wilson
God Delusion #25: Alvin Plantinga Weighs In
The God Delusion #26: W. L. Craig Responds
The God Delusion #27: David Sloan Wilson's Critique of Dawkins
The God Delusion #28: The Attempt to Rescue Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion #29: The McGraths' Critique of Dawkins #1
The God Delusion #30: McGrath #2 - "Delusion"
The God Delusion #31: The McGraths & Martin Luther
The God Delusion #32: The McGrath's on "But Who Made God?"
The God Delusion #33: Dawkins Now Selling T-shirts
The God Delusion #34: Dawkins and the "God of the Gaps?
The God Delusion #35: Science Has Disproved God?
The God Delusion #36: The Naive "Science Explains Everything" Outlook
The God Delusion #37: Freud and the Future of an Illusion
The God Delusion #38: NOMAs & POMAs
The Dawkins Delusion #39: Should a Real Scientist Be an Atheist?
The God Delusion #40: How Richard Dawkins Helps Us
The God Delusion #41: Dawkins as an Embarrassment to Other Atheists
The God Delusion #42: Dawkins's "Pseudointellectual Drivel"
The God Delusion #43: Dawkins's Feuerbachian Roots
The God Delusion #44: Another Atheist Notes the "Thinness" of Neo-Atheism
The God Delusion #45: Dawkins's Mouth Puts Publisher in Danger
The God Delusion #46: Craig's Criticisms of Dawkins
