When I came to teach atOxfordUniversity, after many years of teaching philosophy in other British universities, I found myself almost immediately pitched into a rather heated debate about religion and science with two well-known scientists, Richard Dawkins and Peter Atkins. Professors Dawkins and Atkins regarded religion as some sort of intellectual disasterarea, and seemed to think that no intelligent and informed person could take religious beliefs seriously. Since I had been appointed Regius Professor of Divinity and was a Canon of Christ Church, I took some exception to their view, and over the next few years we had a series of public debates on the subject. One result of this was that in 1996 I wrote a book, God,Chance and Necessity, in which I set out to refute their main arguments against theism and to argue that not only was… [download]
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