If I were so scared of an Oxbridge Don, I'd first of all ask myself I were personally scared or whether I had been programmed to be so by the source of your bullet pointed nonsense.

Secondly, if religion has the answers, shallow adherents wouldn't need to react to rational criticism in the way rabid dogs foam at the mouth when he is mentioned.

Thirdly, I remain amused by how he is entering these debates. He doesn't speak for atheists because most atheists have never even heard of him, let alone be interested in his works.

I assume of course we are talking of the same distinguished eminent professor? I don't recognise the charges. They say more about the writer and their origin than they do about the scientist questioning why religion has to interfere with those who couldn't care a monkeys cunt about medieval superstition. The masses have other distractions now, and as can be seen, don't need it for a moral compass.

The less I care for religion, the less I feel like raping, pillaging and wreck less abandon. Yup, I seem to have a moral compass without the need for an imaginary friend. Maybe altruism is a feature of evolution after all!

Tambourines sell well on eBay if delusion ever leads to disillusion.