In Depth:  Mr M.H. Davis

Dear Sir,

To start with, my wife and I continue to subscribe to en and find on the whole it still has relevant and often well-researched articles.

Dear Sir,

At the end of September I attended a Faraday Institute lecture given by Alister McGrath, entitled ‘Darwin, Dawkins and the Divine: Why is Biology at the Heart of the New Atheism?’ This lecture (open to the public) aroused great expectations in myself and no doubt other attending Christians. It would be fair to say that the title and sub-title suggested at the very least some sort of spirited defence of religion and, by extension, Christianity. Alister McGrath, a highly respected scientist turned Christian, has written over the years a plethora of helpful and timely Christian books defending and intelligently examining the faith in the light of various issues, particularly those belligerently raised by the neo-Darwinist, Richard Dawkins.