Alister McGrath, Author at Catholic Herald

Alister McGrath

The ‘God debate’ has moved on from Dawkins

February 07, 2019

It Keeps Me Seeking By Andrew Briggs, Andrew Steane and Hans Halvorson, OUP, 368pp, £19.99/$30 This work illustrates rather nicely the law of unintended consequences. In writing his God Delusion (2006), Richard Dawkins appears to have believed he was delivering a scientifically supercharged death blow to religion. Instead, he has simply alerted people to the

Why science can be friends with religion

April 26, 2018

Religion vs Science by Elaine Howard Ecklund and Christopher Scheitle, oup, 240pp, £20 Is there a tension between science and religious belief? Or can they happily coexist, perhaps even enriching each other? These questions have been debated since the 17th century, and were given a higher profile through the rise of the “New Atheism”, championed

What Darwin got right and wrong

September 21, 2017

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker by AN Wilson, John Murray, £25 Charles Darwin remains one of the most discussed thinkers of the Victorian age, a towering figure whose ideas straddled and connected the worlds of science, culture and religion. The burgeoning research literature on Darwin makes huge demands on any biographer hoping to break new ground

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