He was not alone. But Richard Dawkins, a biologist at Oxford University, is not one of those scientists. He will have none of it. He has no use for mysticism, metaphysics or theology. Dawkins is a militant atheist, and he scoffs at any hint that there is meaning or purpose or design to what we discover in the world.
Science is all there is, and science is all there needs to be.
All other explanatory systems are superstition. The existence, development and complexity of life is an accident of chemistry, he says. After Darwin, there is no need for God. He presents the counter-arguments, and one by one, he dismantles them. Some argue that modern science is just another belief system, the myth of Western culture, and that evolution is indistinguishable from the creation myths that all civilizations have.