It's definitely polemical
I enjoyed it but I prefer his biology stuff like the Selfish Gene.
( in vino veritas, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 22:28, archived)

what's that about?
if it's not a stupid question.
edit: Fanks both - I might have to swallow my pride and read it then. But I'll do so in Emma Dawson's voice.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 22:30, archived)

It was Dawkins' rebuttal of all pro-God arguments
and pretty much said that if you believed in a religion you were narrow-minded and dim.

EDIT: I just realised that you probably meant what was The Selfish Gene about, not God Delusion. The Selfish Gene was about the gene being the unit of inheritance rather than the individual organism, so explaining behaviour that seems illogical - an individual might die to save their relatives, thus continuing the gene. Bad explanation, sorry. Good book though.
( in vino veritas, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 22:35, archived)

In addition to being a shouty Non-God-Botherer
he's also more or less defined the way we think about genetics and evolution for the past 35 years or so.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins#Evolutionary_biology
The Selfish Gene is a Very Good Book Indeed.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 22:37, archived)