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Robin Le Poidevin appeals to analytical philosophy to refute the fundamental theistic arguments of medieval philosophy. The author designed the book as a text that can be taught to university students in philosophy of religion or metaphysics courses. (In other words, if you are going to read a book as an introduction to Atheism, this is not that book. You may have difficulty understanding the book, both with the topics it contains and the terms used.)
The issues discussed in the book are also presented as metaphysical issues – causality, time, necessity, ontology, etc. What an atheist generally does is not to prove the existence of God, but to try to show that the evidence put forward about the existence of God is unsuccessful, weak and insufficient. Therefore, if there is God, the question of why there is evil is the argument that atheism has the most leverage in refuting theism.
Finally, I would like to share a few lines that the author shared with the reader in his preface:
"Atheists and those who believe in God can live peacefully side by side if they can understand each other." And as long as one side rejects the other as morally corrupt or irrational, an atmosphere of mutual understanding will never be achieved.”
