This award-winning title traces the development of atheistic and agnostic thinking ove the past 2,500 years and shows how thinkers like Immnuel Kant, Friedrich Neitzsche, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertrand Ruddell and others have shaped many people's thinking today.It also pinpooints the flaws in Darwinian evolutionism and in claims made for it by Richard Sawkins, Christipher Hitchens and others, explains why secualr humanism self-destructs, reveals why there is no conflict between science and belief in God, exposes fatal errors in nine world religions and fourteen major cults and shows why the existence of evil and suffering is no reason to deny God's existence.Newly updated with an Appendix—'Dealing with Dawkins'