Yet Another One

Since the publications of Dawkins’ The God Delusion last year, there have been a number of books published in riposte. The latest is John Cornwell’s Darwin’s Angel: an angelic response to The God Delusion. And it seems to be yet another example of a writer who deliberately misrepresents what Dawkins actually wrote. In order to prepare for a radio interview with Cornwell, Dawkins read Darwin’s Angel, and he was so surprised by the way that his views had been twisted, that he wrote a response here. As Dawkins says, it is difficult not to think, on the face of the evidence in the book, that Cornwell is being anything other than mendacious, spiced with petty malice.