Daylia, Dawkins is not arrogant. Read his book and find out why.

Frank, I always like to preview authors like Dawkins, before I ingest their work. So, here's a few

Dawkins Quotes and my responses to them.

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria

If you want to believe that you are bacteria and descended from bacteria, go right ahead and fill your boots, dear Dawkins.

Reminds me of a shamanically-inclined friend who believed his Higher Power was a lizard. He got the same response, from me.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes--the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans."

Ditto.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators.

And ditto again.

if you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so. The trick is to want the right things, then science will provide you with the most effective methods of achieving them.

Intersting how he neglects to mention that the very same thing can be said of religions.

"I suspect that today if you asked people to justify their belief in God, the dominant reason would be scientific. Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it. "

Well, Dr Arrogance, I for one will not be waiting breathlessly for your personal explanation of the existence of life! Or waste a single penny of my hard-earned money on any of your best-sellers, or one more minute of my precious time on your rants and ravings.

However, if and when you ever manage to demonstrate said explanation by using it to produce even just ONE simple, viable living cell -- WITHOUT using the genetic blueprint of another living cell in any way!!! -- when that day comes, I might be more inclined to give you the time of day.

daylia