The idea that one human being can know enough about the nature of the universe to make the sweeping declarations Dawkins' makes is preposterous to me, and no more credible than the sweeping declarations of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. To me, that's the flaw in all of his work, from The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion. He is certainly intelligent, and writes as such, but he lacks wisdom and imagination. As such, pursuits like Dawkins' often boil down to one type of faith (in 'reason') vs. The existence or non-existence of a God cannot be proven, nor can the existence or non-existence of a soul, and faith is an abstract experience with implications that are fundamentally unresponsive to study. Fundamentalists of all faiths scare me, and atheism is just as much a faith as any religion. I do not believe in a God, certainly not any God that's been conceived by man, but I also believe Richard Dawkins is a self-satisfied thought-Nazi who is as fundamental in his view of religion as any right-wing minister. Didactic, patronizing, condescending and arguably neo-intellectual twaddle.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins