case can be made that faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn’t based on evidence, is the principal vice of any religion” (Daily Telegraph Science Extra, September 11, 1989). However, in serious Christian literature “faith” is not used in the sense of believing things without reasons. That might be Richard Dawkins’ preferred definition—except when he was publicly asked by Oxford professor John Lennox whether he