Dawkins on creationism

Richard Dawkins suggests that belief in God is nothing but narcissism writ across the universe (Click on this heading to read more)

By Scott Kaufman
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 13:02 EST
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In an interview with the 92nd Street Y released today, renowned atheist Richard Dawkins suggested that the desire to believe in God arises from deists's overestimation of their own intellect.
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"It does seem to me that if there is a supernatural, superhuman intelligence that worked it all out, in a way that undermines the entire scientific enterprise because…the whole enterprise of evolutionary biology is to explain how you get prodigious complexity from virtually nothing."
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Evolutionary biologists, he added, "hand over to physicists when we can't go beyond the virtually nothing to the absolutely nothing."
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"But if you start from quite an advanced level bacteria," he continued, "and work up to mammals and humans, we have a working theory - which we know is true - which explains how you can go from great simplicity to prodigious complexity, and finally to the sort of complexity which is capable of designing things, of creating things, of working out how to do things."
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Dawkins suggests that because we are capable "of designing things, of creating things, of working out how to do things," we end up looking in the universe for "something complicated enough to do design," i.e. an intelligence that resembles our own.
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"Well, if you are suddenly going in search of a designing machine, a creator, an intelligence at the root of the universe," he said, "you just undermined your entire enterprise, because your entire enterprise has been to explain how you get to something complicated enough to do design."