Dawkins is one of my favorite authors… he was also a good friend of (recently more famous than ever before Hitchhiker’s Guide author) Douglas Adams.
from the article:
You delve into agnosticism in “The Ancestor’s Tale.” How does it differ from atheism?
It’s said that the only rational stance is agnosticism because you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of the supernatural creator. I find that a weak position. It is true that you can’t disprove anything but you can put a probability value on it. There’s an infinite number of things that you can’t disprove: unicorns, werewolves, and teapots in orbit around Mars. But we don’t pay any heed to them unless there is some positive reason to think that they do exist.
if this rings true with you, join the brights! it’s an organization devoted to promoting a naturalistic worldview.
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