Author: Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins is a fellow and a professor of chemistry at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous books on science and has written and spoken on humanism, atheism, and the incompatibility of science and religion.
Atheist Revolution
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, selected and introduced by Christopher Hitchens (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-306-81608-6) xxvi + 499 pp. Paper $17.50. Voltaire, who does not appear in The Portable Atheist, remarked that revolutions are made of pocketbooks. This reasonably hefty volume will fit into few pockets and will …
A Most Splendid Volume
The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, edited by Tom Flynn (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59102-391-3) 897 pp. Cloth $199.00. Richard Dawkins, in his cogent and engaging foreword to The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, reflects on the peculiarity of having a huge volume devoted to the absence of something. In fact, I was reminded immediately …