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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.04.2008
All the seats are taken for a free talk by the author of the controversial best-selling book "The God Delusion," but there's still a chance of seeing Richard Dawkins in Tempe Thursday night.
Dawkins will give a talk about his book at 6:30 p.m. in Arizona State University's Gammage Auditorium.
Though the talk is free and open to the public, reservations are required and the auditorium's 3,017 seats all have been reserved. Organizers say that at 6:45 p.m. people without tickets may form a line, and at 7:15 p.m. the house staff will use that line to fill any unclaimed seats.
Dawkins, an ardent atheist, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.
In "The God Delusion," Dawkins contends that belief in a god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.
He is sympathetic to an observation by American author and philosopher Robert Pirsig that "when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
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