Dissecting Dawkins’ Fleas

Over the past year or so, a new niche in the book market has appeared: books written by authors who attempt a riposte of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. They have become known as Dawkins’ Fleas (an allusion to a statement made by the poet W. B. Yeats about his imitators).

 

Paula Kirby has taken on the sterling task of reviewing four of these books in great detail. She has done a magnificent job. Hercules cleaning out the Augean stables comes to mind.