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 importance of religion, and generated a new interest – especially among younger people – in the growing field of science and religion.
It Keeps Me Seeking is an excellent example of a new wave of works by scientists and philosophers of science, offering more informed and balanced accounts of the complex issues than the atheist tracts of the 2000s. Dawkins is referenced a dozen times in this work, but the overall message is clear – the discussion has moved on.
