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An atheist meets his match: atheist Richard Dawkins wrote The God Delusion to repudiate all religious belief, but Alister McGrath and his wife skillfully counter his arguments in The Dawkins Delusion?(Book review)

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The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006, 406 pages, hardcover, $27.00.

The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath, Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2007, 118 pages, hardcover, $16.00.

"Religion causes harm, says poll," declared the headline of a September 2 article for the online edition of the Sunday Times of London. The Times' Richard Brooks declared, "Nearly half the British think that religion is harmful, according to a poll carried out by YouGov. Yet more than half also believe in God 'or something.'" The poll results--if accurate--report a sad deterioration at the heart ...

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