Colin Howson, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, has a new book, Objecting to God, published last July by Cambridge University Press. The book evaluates the evidence old and new for the existence of a God of the sort the Abrahamic religions postulate, and concludes that there really isn’t any: on the contrary, the evidence is very strongly against. Not only do these religions lack any credible foundation, but their influence, the book goes on to argue, is largely malign, embodying a code of ethics both primitive and repressive.