The Christian Post reports that the atheist author behind the book "The God Delusion" may be a leading scientist, but he's a poor philosopher, according to the spiritual head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Addressing more than 1,000 people at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, Archbishop Rowan Williams rebutted the assessment of Christianity in Richard Dawkins' best-selling book, saying that atheists had missed the point and failed to understand what Christians actually believe in. "There are specific areas of mismatch between what Richard Dawkins may write about and what religious people think they are doing," said Williams. "Our culture is one that deeply praises science, so we assume because someone is a good scientist, they must be a good philosopher," he added. But Williams suggested that assumption that religion is "an eccentric survival strategy or irrational form of explanation" was distracting people from "real arguments" over God's existence. The Archbishop did cite Christians as "partly to blame," however, when asked 'Whose fault is Dawkins?'

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