<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Curtis, Simon</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Book review</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006-12-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">980-980</style></pages><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">56</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">533</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Richard Dawkins The God Delusion Bantam Press 2006 HB, 416 pages, £20.00, 0593055489 For anyone interested in patterns of human thought and motivation, as all GPs surely are, this is an important book which deserves to be widely distributed under Christmas trees this year. It is hard-hitting, passionate, darkly funny and fizzes with intellectual energy. In an age of cultural relativism which vetoes criticism of religion, it is also a very brave book. Dawkins deliberately takes a controversial stance, his intention to provoke debate from which comes reason. We can vigorously debate politics and economics, he argues, so why do we have to tip-toe around religion?Dawkins nails his ‘thesis’ to the door right at the start: his aim is to ‘raise consciousness to the fact that to be an atheist is a realistic aspiration, and a brave and splendid one’. He pulls no punches in the early pages as we read of the ‘undeserved respect’ afforded organised religion and of the God of the Bible as ‘arguably …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>