This is the child’s make-believe game: “Let’s imagine. . . .” Surely Dawkins can’t be serious, but he is, and his entranced audience loves it! We don’t know what really happened, admits Dawkins tentatively, but let’s play a fantasy game and imagine it just might have been like this.

This is science [1]? Spare us! But it’s the best atheism [2] has to offer, showing the bankruptcy of evolutionary theory. Incredibly, Dawkins has built a worldwide reputation as a brilliant scientist on this sort of fantasizing.