"We will always have a God but it is up to us to let this God evolve into a better God.

My concept of God would need no worshiping and would make no laws other than the law that we be good to others and preserve this earth and the rest of the universe. All other concepts of God eventually lead to cultism as has happened with Islam and Christianity and must be rejected."

Ted Baines, New York, USA

"I'm delighted to see that this brave, scholarly and well argued book has become a best seller. As Dawkins points out, there are a great many people out there who do not believe but are afraid to say so. Too many are afraid to criticise the various absurdities which still so dominate our lives.

Do not call me a fundamentalist

I believe that people will courageously cast aside their celestial comfort blankets, says Richard Dawkins

Rees-Mogg v Dawkins

William Rees-Mogg, The Times columnist, joins the debate about faith in a reply to Professor Richard Dawkins

BACKGROUND

• Everyone should read the Bible, says Dawkins

• Dawkins v God — stop the fight

• God . . . in other words

When a man of his intellectual capacity and credentials makes such a forceful argument it emboldens other to do the same. This of course infuriates the religionists and their reaction is typically intemperate. In a thankfully bygone age Dawkins would have been tortured and murdered. It is their inability to silence such intelligent and rational discourse which infuriates them the most."

Paul Owen, Birmingham , UK

"Dawkins may be extremely intelligent. Thankfully, intelligence isn’t the only human quality we should admire. I might mention humility, tolerance and generous human spirit for starters…irrespective of whether a person has faith or not."

Philip Oakes, London, UK

"Richard Dawkins IS a fundamentalist- pure and simple. And yes, he does shrill, rage and spew hatred. No better or worse than the average human. The difference between a Christian fundamentalist and a Dawkin fundamentalist is that the former says "God knows best", while the latter says "I know best".

This brings up the question- which Charles Darwin considered- as Dawkins is an evolved monkey (true evolution), how much faith should one place in the judgment of a monkey's brain?

I rest my case."

Fundamentalist, London,