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The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine is unavailable, but you can change that!

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.” The volume has received wide coverage, fueled much passionate debate, and spread confusion and distrust. Alister McGrath, along with his wife, Joanna, are ideal to evaluate Dawkins’s ideas. Once an atheist himself, Alister...

God is just like believing in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. These are childish beliefs that are abandoned as soon as we are capable of evidence-based thinking. And so is God. It’s obvious, isn’t it? As Dawkins pointed out in his Thought for the Day on BBC Radio in 2003, humanity ‘can leave the crybaby phase, and finally come of age’. This ‘infantile explanation’ belongs to an earlier, superstitious era in the history of humanity. We’ve outgrown it.4 Hmmm. Like many of Dawkins’ analogies, this has
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