Science and atheism

Science, Christianity and Atheism

General Responses

• “Thinking About…Science and Apologetics” by David Wilkinson
• ‘New Atheism – New Apologetics: The Use of Science in Recent Christian Apologetic Writings’ – Boyle lecture given by Prof. Alister McGrath. 22nd January, 2014.
  Video of lecture (youtube link), Transcript (weblink)
• ‘God’s Undertaker – has science buried God?’ lecture by Dr John Lennox, given at the CiS Central South local group – 28th April 2008.
  Audio of lecture (MP3, 21.3MB), Video of lecture (MP4, 160MB)
• ‘A sceptics guide to atheism – God is not dead’ book launch by Peter S. Williams at the CiS Central South local group, 10th March 2009
  Download recording of talk (MP3, 11MB)
• The Spell of the Meme, 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”.
  Transcript of the lecture (pdf 132 MB)
• 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?.

Responses to Stephen Hawking:

Articles

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

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 Magazine 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
• A Clash of Fundamentalisms, by Dr Denis Alexander, written for the Time Educational Supplement
  Pdf of article (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
  Transcript of Lecture

Multimedia

• ‘Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life’ – a lecture given by Prof. Alister McGrath at the CiS Central South local group on 9th Nov 2006
  Audio of lecture (MP3, 13.6MB), Slides from the lecture (PDF, 2.2MB)
  Video of lecture (click to watch now or right-click to download the video to your computer) (MP4, 108MB)
• 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 Prof. Alister McGrath, in response to Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion”
  Audio file (mp3)
• 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.
• 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.