Edited sentence: By contrast there are strong disagreements between Dawkins's views and those of Stephen Jay Gould  and Martin Rees  who suggest that questions of religion should be left to philosophers and theologians.Confining ourselves only to academics who have reached tenured Professorships at major universities and who have Wikipedia articles we can list a such few prominent supporters and critics whose pages and works can be consulted for more detail.Critics in this book included Patrick Bateson offering 'affectionate disagreements' and Michael Ruse.Dawkins lampoons Freeman Dyson.Dawkins views (esp about religion) are, intentionally, highly controversial and provoke much heated debate.Grayling is another supportive philosopher.John Polkinghorne, Russell Stannard, Simon Conway Morris and Denis Noble  suggest that science does not support Dawkins' conclusions, indeed the first three all strongly defend mainstream Christianity based on modern science.Mary Midgley , Terry Eagleton , Alvin Plantinga , Richard Swinburne  and Alister McGrath  criticise Dawkins mainly on philosophical and historical grounds.Nesse are publicly supportive scientists - all of these contributed to Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think.Other publicly supportive scientists include Peter Atkins.Steven Pinker, John Krebs, Martin Daly and Randolph M.The philosopher Daniel Dennett has a worldview very close to Dawkins and they heavily cite each other