Rowan to confront arguments of the ‘new atheists’
Oct 13 2007
by David Williamson, Western Mail

ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury Rowan Williams will insist God is not a delusion in a speech at a Welsh university today.

Dr Williams will confront the arguments of bestselling atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in the lecture, How to Misunderstand Religion.

His spokesman said, “‘Religion’ is in the news a lot these days and plenty of people are making quite a business of attacking it. But do they understand what religion really is?”

Prof Dawkins, author The God Delusion is the figurehead of the “new atheism” movement. His book has spent more than 50 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and has been joined by Mr Hitchens’s God is Not Great. the rest