Done . Can I also plug rLiverpoolGaming here too ? <| sep |> How widespread is the above idea among theologians vs . among laypeople ? Eagleton espouses a view that ' s known as classical theism within philosophy of religion . Plenty of wellknown philosophers adhered to that view , for example , Aristotle , Plato , Maimonides , Avicenna , and Aquinas , as well as plenty of contemporary philosopherstheologians . Of course someone like Dawkins may be inclined to attack nonclassicaltheist views of God because they ' re arguably easier to attack and more popular with laypeople . And if Dawkins ' attacks were limited to the views of these people , he would probably face less criticism from philosophers who adhere to the classical theist school of thought . Same thing if Dawkins would only criticize young earth creationists . But what Dawkins does is basically attack Christian fundamentalism and strawmanning it into an attack on Christianity as a whole . Criticizing Dawkins for not understanding the classical theist concept of God is valid since he explicitely criticizes philosophers like Aquinas who formulated their arguments based on this definition . What Dawkins is doing is like attacking the theory of evolution based on the assumption that the theory of evolution claims that humans evolved from monkeys something plenty of laypeople may think , but evolutionary biologists don ' t .