Science & Atheism

Science, Christianity and Atheism

Responses to Stephen Hawking:

Articles

• Hawking, Dawkins & the Matrix, Revd Dr David Wilkinson, Part of the CiS-St. Edmunds Cambridge Lecture Series
• Creation: A Response to Stephen Hawking, Revd Dr Ernest Lucas (Bristol Baptist College) writing for the Evangelical Alliance.
• Stephen Hawking, God and the Role of Science, Alister McGrath

Multimedia

• God and The Multiverse: A Response to Stephen Hawking, Rev Dr Rodney Holder speaks at the Pentecost Festival. Audio (mp3, 38.3 MB) Slides (pdf, 733 KB)

Responses to Richard Dawkins:

Articles

• “A Mission to Convert”: book review by The New York Review of Books.
• Excerpts from a debate between Francis Collins and Richard Dawkins arranged by TIME on 30 September 2006.
• The God disunion: there is a place for faith in science, insists Lord Winston: article in the Guardian (25 April 2007).
• Has Science eliminated God? Richard Dawkins and the Meaning of Life
  Text from Alister McGrath’s talk at Cambridge University
• THES article, Dr Denis Alexander, A Clash of Fundamentalisms (pdf)
• Madeleine Bunting responds to Dawkins in 07 Jan Guardian
• Hawking, Dawkins & the Matrix, Revd Dr David Wilkinson, Part of the CiS-St. Edmunds Cambridge Lecture Series

Multimedia

• The God Delusion: David Quinn debates Richard Dawkins on the Ryan Tubridy Show, RTE radio 9 October 2006 (audio, 22 minutes).
• Is God a Delusion? Atheism and the Meaning of Life – An online lecture (mp3) Prof. Alister McGrath, in response to Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion”
• Channel 4′s “The Root of all Evil”, presented by Richard Dawkins was aired in January 2006. This interview, between Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath was cut completely from the final version, and is now available on both Dawkins and McGrath’s websites.

Books:

• The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath with Joanna Collicutt McGrath, SPCK, 2007, 78pp
• The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths by David Robertson, Christian Focus, 2007, 125pp, £4.99 (also available to read at BeThinking)
• Deluded by Dawkins? A Christian Response to The God Delusion by Andrew Wilson, Kingsway, 2007, 112pp, £5.99
• Darwins Angel, An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion by John Cornwell, Profile, 2007, 160pp, £9.99.
• The Dawkins Delusion: comments by Alister McGrath on Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion”
• Dawkins’ God: genes, memes and the meaning of life (book by McGrath).

 

Mike Poole and Richard Dawkins discussion in Science & Christian Belief

• A Critique of Aspects of the Philosophy and Theology of Richard Dawkins, by Mike Poole.
• Reply to Michael Poole, by Professor Richard Dawkins.
• Response to Richard Dawkins’ Reply, by Mike Poole.
• A summary of the debate from the April 1996 issue of Nucleus, the Student Journal of the Christian Medical Fellowship. It is reproduced here, with minor changes, by kind permission.
• Printed copies of the reprint of the full debate can be ordered from the CiS publication secretary.

Others

• The Spell of the Meme (pdf 132 MB), by Prof. Alister McGrath.
  A speech given at the Royal Society of Arts on Monday 13 March 2006, in response to Professor Daniel Dennett’s book “Breaking the Spell”.
• A number of video discussions and debates between Christians and non-Christians can be found on atheistdebate.org including a discussion between Alister McGrath and Peter Atkins entitled Darwin and humanity: Should we rid the mind of God?.