TITLE: The Dawkins Delusion
AUTHOR: Alistair McGrath
PUBLISHER: SPCK
DATE PUBLISHED: 2007

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World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down." His book has received wide coverage, fuelled much passionate debate and caused not a little confusion.

Alister McGrath's The Dawkins Delusion? is a response to The God Delusion.

Ideally placed to evaluate Dawkins' ideas, McGrath was once an atheist himself. He gained a doctorate in molecular biophysics before going on to become a leading Christian theologian.

He wonders how two people, who have reflected at length on substantially the same world, could possibly have come to such different conclusions about God. McGrath subjects Dawkins' critique of faith to rigorous scrutiny. His exhilarating, meticulously argued response deals with questions such as:

• Is faith intellectual nonsense?
• Are science and religion locked in a battle to the death?
• Can the roots of Christianity be explained away scientifically?
• Is Christianity simply a force for evil?

This book will be warmly received by those looking for a reliable assessment of The God Delusion and the many questions it raises including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning.