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May 12, 2016

Rupert Shortt deploys both St Thomas Aquinas and Bertrand Russell in his defence of Christianity as a way of making sense of the world

Now we know why Dawkins refused to sign that letter from atheists condemning Cameron’s ‘we are a Christian country’: could he be on the way to belief?

May 30, 2014

Belief in the theory of evolution is no reason for atheism as Dawkins supposes: Darwin himself insisted that the had never been an atheist

Moving to a smaller house means shedding books: but a man’s library is a history of his mind: should I, for instance, throw out Why I Am Not a Christian?

November 29, 2013

This really was what at one time I would have called 'my bible': seeing that Bertrand Russell was just wrong wasn’t easy

The Guardian’s list of great online talks shows Catholics what we’re up against

August 30, 2013

The newspaper's favourite talks are full of beliefs that are toxic and profoundly anti-Christian

New Atheism has lost its reason

March 30, 2012

The standard of debate has declined rapidly since the age of Bertrand Russell. It's up to Catholics to restore intelligence to the God debate

Professor Dawkins thinks that Jesus today would have been an atheist. But would Dawkins have paid any attention to Him?

October 28, 2011

Atheists like Dawkins have strange ideas about what we believe

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