As a barrage of books by atheists denouncing God and religion assault bestseller lists, Huston Smith, the dean of American religious scholars, offers a believer's response.

God is winning the God-war. He is winning it even though he is playing uphill on an unlevel playing field that the media has tilted sharply upward toward secularism. A single example should suffice to make this obvious.

Two years ago when the Evolution-vs.-Intelligent-Design controversy was raging, I and a colleague, Rustum Roy, submitted to eight leading newspapers and journals of our country an op-ed piece that pointed out that the controversy had drawn a line down the middle of a submission signed by a world-class scientist who mounted and monitors the world’s premier materials science laboratory, and a man whose World’s Religions has sold over two million copies. We were stonewalled. All eight of the journals ignored what we submitted.