Product Description

When Richard Dawkins published 'The God Delusion', David
Robertson wanted there to be an intelligent Christian response. After some
ill thought through interventions in the media it was obvious that no one
was really going to answer the real issues so David Robertson wrote an open
letter to Richard Dawkins on his church website. This has found its way
into Richard Dawkins website, where it generated the largest response of
any posting before or since.

This ferocity of the responses and the shallowness of the thinking that it
exhibited, spurred David to write this book. Christians need to know where
Dawkins is weak and we need to explain things better! It draws upon David's
experience as a debater, letter writer, pastor and author.

This is a very honest book. It agrees with Dawkins where appropiate but
also does not hesitate to point out where some of his thinking does not
hold together - It is written in a gentle spirit of enquiry.

If you want ideas and answers to the challenges of 'The God Delusion' then
Dawkins Letters is the place to find your answers!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2957 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-20
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 144 pages

Christian Marketplace May 2007
This book is a more than useful contribution to the `Dawkins
Debate' and one which has helped me to understand more about the flawed
arguments contained within `The God Delusion'. The book comprises a series
of ten letters to Dawkins, the first of which was published on Dawkins' own
website, which counter the arguments in Dawkins' book chapter by chapter.
Robertson is clearly well-read and marshals his arguments in a balanced and
intellectually sound way. But this is not an inaccessible academic
treatise; he writes clearly and understandably in such a way that most
people will be able to grasp the arguments easily. He avoids the temptation
to `rubbish' Dawkins, just dismantles and challenges his arguments frankly
and cohesively. The final letter (to the reader) "Why Believe", contains a
very useful and extensive reading list which most will never get to read in
entirety but is helpful to have.
Clem Jackson, Editor

Richard Dawkins' Website April 2007
"Wow, this is an intelligent and well-crafted view of RD's book."
Anonymous Atheist

Richard Morris, Wesley Owen Bookstore
No preacher or church leader should be without this remarkable
book. Arch-atheist Professor Richard Dawkins is campaigning to banish
religion in general and Christianity in particular from our schools,
government and all significant areas of public life. Dawkins' big idea is
that Christianity does more harm than good and he's aggressively
campaigning on both sides of the Atlantic. He won't succeed but he will do
a great deal of damage as his poisonous lies permeate Western culture.
David Robertson has written a brief, brilliant and compelling rebuff to
Dawkins' latest book, `The God Delusion'. It is a remarkable apologetic for
the Christian faith and an essential tool in winning the battle of ideas.
I'd give it ten stars if I could! (5 stars out of 5)

Customer Reviews

enjoyable, reasoned and entertaining response to TGD
Really enjoyed the book. It was gracious, self deprecating at times, well researched and, well, real fun to read! Thankyou David Robertson as very few books cause me to devour the words as quickly as did yours. Did it need to be as thick as TGD? Nah! Does it cause one to think, both believer and atheist alike, yep! But hey that's my opinion!

Failing to address the lack of evidence
For Robertson a lack of evidence is unimportant. He still believes. Yet why should I believe without solid evidence for the existence of God? On a critical scale the book falls staggeringly flat. Until the believer community addresses this issue there is no way I will change my outlook on life. I cannot follow what is not supported by evidence, and Robertson should consider that.

More alarming is the arrogance of the author, labelling Muslims as people needing God. So, it's possible that one deity without any supporting evidence can be better than another. Robertson also claims to speak for the Pantheist community, that they should be upset at their belief system being described by Dawkins as little more than 'sexed up' atheism. Well, as a pantheist myself, that is what it essentially is.

God, not alive and well!!
Another book to help Atheists sleep soundly - and another challenge to Dawkins which fails miserably. All response to Dawkins' scientific arguments seem to stem on believing in something that has no evidence of having ever existed - a bogeyman figure who created everything that in fact physics, science, nature has given us. If this God exists then please get rid of all disease and misery, or is this part of a greater plan - a plan that we should all suffer? What kind of caring God would do that? But then the religious ones would reply, 'God works in mysterious ways'!! So does the Bogeyman!!