Customer Reviews
Not worth the thick paper and wide margins it's printed on - By: S. Tighe, 07 Oct 2008 
i think before publishing a rebutal of anothers work one should at least do the other the service of reading & understanding the work. Understanding is totally lacking from this book.
Undone by an Angel - By: J Grainger, 11 Jun 2008 
This was an enjoyable book because it addressed specific aspects of the God Delusion succinctly & without unecessary embellishment. One can only wonder how Dawkins would respond to these points. There again, someone (Dawkins) who gets his wife to read out loud his own book - twice - is hardly likely to take kindly to criticism of it. Dawkins's myopic views seem mirrored by the reviews of some of his supporters. Dr V Stewart [Real Name, apparently] finds Cornwell's 'patronising tone repellent'. You couldn't make it up! Has Dr Stewart ever read anything Dawkins has written? If he had he'd easily recognize patronising words. S Page [Real name, apparently] accuses Cornwell as "deliberately misrepresenting Dawkins' argument". Anyone who had actually read the book could hardly make this claim with any objectivity. If anyone wants a precis of the book they could do worse than read Chapter 2 'Your Sources' to evaluate the background to Dawkins' views & Chapter 9 'Theories of Everything' for a robust and, arguably, unanswerable challenge to Dawkins' firmly held belief that science will one day provide an answer to everything.
I hoped for better; I was disappointed. Another critic bites the dust. - By: Broga, 26 May 2008 
I thought John Cornwell would do so much better than this. Often sly & rarely convincing. He is playing out of his leaguein taking on Dawkins although this is much better than most of the boring, extended Christian tracts which, delivered ex cathedra, merely repeat, "I know best & Richard Dawkins is ignorant."
To any Dawkins haters reading this all I would say is, "Keep on practising but successin undermining Dawkins with any fair minded readers is a long way off. I suppose you could try prayer except that it is Dawkins who seems to be on the side of the angels."
well crafted, but no answers - By: Jason Crawford, 05 Mar 2008 
Cornwell's style is disarming, & he succeedsin taking the moral high ground, if onlyin tone. He rightly pokes fun at Dawkins's self-referencing, & takes him to task effectively over some of his more hysterical or baseless claims. But be careful what you wish for... I read this on an atheists quest to find faith - even reasonable doubt. And here this book is crushingly disappointing; indeed, towards the end it appeared to me to dismantle & trivialise religion as effectively as Dawkins himself. This book would frustrate Dawkins I imagine, as Cornwell often misses the point; it may even embarrass him a little with its deliberate style & composure. That said, I still see Dawkins closing the book with a wry smile... And I remain an atheist with little more food for thought.
How very boring - By: R. Stewart, 14 Jan 2008 Yet again another critic attacks Dawkins for his apparent lack of theological scolarship. Not only is this book aggressivein its direction, it is dishonestin its interpretation of Dawkins' arguments (particularly those relating to Dostoyevsky) & most importantly shows absolute zero reason for me to believein any kind of supernatural entity that offers even a half - decent explanation of the universe. One of Dawkins' main arguments is that until you can show atheists reasonable evidence for the existence of a supreme being then you have no case. Dawkins destroys any recognisable evidence for Abrahamic deitiesin his book The God Delusion. Not surprisingly he cannot address every philosophocal & theological argumentin one book, which has lead to a number of critics criticising him for being apparently unlearnedin these fields. You can postulate all you like about Dawkins' methods but his reputation & works are based on empirical science & not woolly superstition & as such he will remain one of the most respected scientists & thinkers of his generation. As Christopher Hitchens points out, religion has poisoned this world long enough - why don't you let those of us who believein facts have a go?
