Despite the title, her latest book is not so much a case for God as a case against atheism.

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Mr Robertson said he could have written a better case for atheism and described most of the arguments as "sixth form schoolboy variety".

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But she argues that modern atheism is as one-dimensional and transient a phenomenon as the modern varieties of theism (including fundamentalism) to which it responds.

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What is left, once these attacks are dismissed, is a critique of Mr Dawkins's proselytising atheism.

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Out of 57 countries in a WIN-Gallup global survey on faith and atheism, Ireland ranked 43rd in terms of the population considering itself religious.

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