Richard Dawkins' Web site has called The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths by David Robertson (Christian Focus Publications) the best response to the noted atheist's The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin).

Paula Kirby reviewed four books that seek to refute The God Delusion, including The Dawkins Letters, The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (SPCK Publishing) by Alister McGrath; Deluded by Dawkins?: A Christian Response to the God Delusion (Kingsway Publications) by Andrew Wilson and Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion (Profile) by John Cornwell.

"Of the four books, rather astonishingly only one attempted a serious rebuttal of (The God Delusion) and imparted a clear view of its writer's beliefs-and that was Robertson's," Kirby wrote on Dawkins' Web site. "There is very little by way of argument in the other books that Robertson does not cover in his. ... To my surprise, I found this the best of the four books. ... Of the four writers, Robertson puts up by far the best fight."

Scotland-based Christian Focus Publications (CFP) welcomed Kirby's review of The Dawkins Letters. "It's not exactly a ringing endorsement, but it seems to have ruffled some feathers," CFP General Manager Ian Thompson said.

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