Is He Out There? Debating The God Delusion, by Paul Laffan

Author: Paul Laffan. Review by Jonathan Wooding.

'Give just one metaphysical inch and you’ll be a mile down the road to the everlasting evolutionary bonfire.' | Photo: Book cover of Is He Out There? Debating The God Delusion, by Paul Laffan

This book is essential reading, but what an awful title! Is He Out There? We Quakers, connoisseurs of interiority (and somewhat scientifically minded too, on a good day), know the answer to that question. But this book is not an exercise in sifting false from true religion. Here, Paul Laffan is defending the reputation of The God Delusion, the polemical book by Richard Dawkins, who was, at the time of publication in 2006, the professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford.

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