I don't want to be seen as defending Richard Dawkins - the most famous and militant atheist in the world today - but I've noticed that most of his ire is directed against religious fundamentalism, NOT the idea of God's existence, per se. With that in mind, I found this Dawkins quote from a 2006 Time Magazine cover story to be quite intriguing...
"My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about, nor can you, nor can anybody else.
What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the particular historical religions that people happen to have dreamed up.
When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I thought were cogent arguments against a supernatural intelligent designer. But it does seem to me to be a worthy idea. Refutable--but nevertheless grand and big enough to be worthy of respect.
I don't see the Olympian gods or Jesus coming down and dying on the Cross as worthy of that grandeur. They strike me as parochial. If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed."
I actually agree with that.
-Todd
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