Wiki Professor Dawkins. He is worth a look. Instructive.
You account the Professor a “devout” Atheist. He places himself anywhere from devout Agnostic to fervent Atheist, depending on the headwinds he is bucking.
I looked over the wiki (I don't want to read the whole thing). My previous assessment was correct: his atheism absolutely takes the form of a religious faith. He certainly does the cause of increasing scientific literacy no favors, when he states as fact his pure opinion that science can somehow disprove the existence of God.