The atheist's version of God is a straw man

Why do skeptics prefer their theism stupid?

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I appreciate Isaac Chotiner's objection to my review of David Hart's book The Experience of God. I'm somewhat less appreciative of the characteristically nasty, self-satisfied response of Jerry Coyne, a University of Chicago professor who is capable of writing cogent defenses of evolutionary theory but who lately seems to prefer playing to the bleachers, writing regularly for an audience of obsequious acolytes who set him up to knock down "weapons grade horseshit." To each his own, I suppose.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.