belief that one is prepared to defend by quoting evidence and logic, and a belief that is supported by nothing more than tradition, authority or revelation." Debate On 3 October 2007, John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, publicly debated Richard Dawkins at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Dawkins' views as expressed in The God Delusion, and their validity over and against the Christian faith. "The God Delusion Debate" marked Dawkins' first visit to the Old South and the first significant discussion on this issue in the "Bible Belt". The event was sold out, and The Wall Street Journal called it "a revelation: in Alabama, a civil debate over God's existence." Dawkins debated Lennox for the second time at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in October 2008. The debate was titled "Has Science Buried God?", in which Dawkins used a form of an Eddington concession in saying that, although he would not accept it, a reasonably respectable case could be made for "a deistic god, a sort of god of the physicist, a god of somebody like Paul Davies, who devised the laws of physics, god the mathematician, god who put together the cosmos in the first place and then sat back and watched everything happen" but not for a theistic god. Several days later, in a public debate in Inverness, Scotland, John Lennox used this part of Dawkins' speech out of context claiming that "Dawkins now believes that a good case can be made for deism", which Dawkins refuted in his conference in Atlanta, describing Lennox as insincere. Reviews and responses Alvin Plantinga: The Dawkins Confusion Anthony Kenny: Knowledge Belief and Faith Thomas Nagel: The Fear of Religion Michael Ruse: Chicago Journals Review Richard Swinburne: Response to Richard Dawkins Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath: The Dawkins Delusion? H. Allen Orr: A Mission to Convert Terry Eagleton: London Review of Books, Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching Antony Flew: The God Delusion Review – Dawkins response Murrough O'Brien of The Independent: Our Teapot which art in heaven – Dawkins responds: Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them? Marilynne Robinson: The God Delusion Review, Harper's Magazine 2006 Simon Watson: "Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion and Atheist Fundamentalism," in Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology (Spring 2010) William Lane Craig: "Dawkins' Delusion", web article excerpted from Contending with Christianity's Critics Sales As