Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people