Peter W. Atkins

Awesome Versus Adipose: Who Really Works Hardest to Banish Ignorance? (1998) (Off Site)

Atkins compares religious explanations to scientific explanations.

Review of Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe (1998)

Peter Atkins argues that "the danger of this--and why it receives so much attention--is partly that it is so well written (or so some find; I among them, I must confess). I learned a huge amount from it (I think), and it was only my wary eye that held me back from slipping along with the argument. Moreover, here we have a real, and very competent (but deeply misguided) scientist purveying some very good science and pointing up some very important omissions in our current understanding. Dr. Behe and his book must be as gold-dust among the dross of the general run of creationists and their so-called literature. The general reader will not know the limitations of his argument, or be aware of his misrepresentations of the facts, and will easily be seduced by his arguments. After all, it seems so very much easier, and certainly avoids a lot of intellectual effort, to accept that God did it all, even though we have to interpret the carefully coded allusions to this incompetent figment of impoverished imaginations."