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    The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
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    The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

    Narrated by Daniel C. Dennett and Stephen Fry

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    About this audiobook

    In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in audiobook for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an introduction by Stephen Fry.

    At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen”, the heralds of religion's unraveling — Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett — sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and enthralling exchange that has been viewed millions of times since it was first posted on YouTube. This is intellectual inquiry at its best: exhilarating, funny, and unpredictable, sincere and probing, reminding us just how varied and colorful the threads of modern atheism are.

    Here is the transcript of that conversation, in audiobook for the first time, augmented by material from the living participants: Dawkins, Harris, and Dennett. These new essays, introduced by Stephen Fry, mark the evolution of their thinking and highlight particularly resonant aspects of this epic exchange. Each man contends with the most fundamental questions of human existence while challenging the others to articulate their own stance on God and religion, cultural criticism, spirituality, debate with people of faith, and the components of a truly ethical life.

    Read by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Stephen Fry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 19, 2019
    ISBN9780593153871
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    • 2/5
      This is a rather disappointing book in most regards. The four horsemen (Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett discuss various questions regarding atheism, theism, and their respective influences and impacts on society, etc. Dawkins maintains his classic arrogance throughout and restates his argument (an old and recycled one) against the existence of God based on Him being even more complex than the universe He created and therefore less probable and requiring even more explanation than the universe (in spite of the fact he doesn't have any reason to believe the rules of probability even apply to a God outside of the universe who is not affected by the things that dictate probability). Dawkins also disappointingly states that he would wish all religion disappear, churches empty, and services cease because he is concerned with whether people think correctly, yet still admits to saying grace himself in a ritualistic manner on certain occasions and provides no satisfying reconciliation for his hypocrisy. Other discussions are more enlightening and entertaining, such as whether secular influences could have produced art as beautiful or explanations and explorations of experiences of the numenous as satisfying as religion provides. However, those short discussions, in my opinion, are too short and the value of the audiobook is decreased when the speakers provide examples of certain people in religious history speaking with authority on nonsense topics (making things up, as the author rightfully states) but then generalize those actions to all religious people, yet claim "science" doesn't do that, as if science acted on its own objcetively or as if scientists were free of bias, unfounded claims, and generalizations. Overall, I find the authors short-sighted and arrogant, though with an occasional refreshing statement from Hitchens.
    • 3/5
      Chaotic. Not intellectually very stimulating; lots of dogma on the anti religious side, doomsday hyperbole of the atheists, and a complete glossing over of the questions raised in favor of religion. I must say they came across no better than the religious, with the exception of Dawkins. I like him.

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