And then.....
There's the OBJECT or ENTITY or PHILOSOPHY that is at the center of one's faith...
Either or all of which remain open to scrutiny, examination, critical thinking, and the bringing of independent conclusions that may may or may NOT align with the holder/proclaimer of the faith....
Dawkins is all talk... and angry/militant rhetoric...
He is an atheistic jihadi... all emotion and shrill but faulty arguments...
His buddy Anthony Flew has renounceed militant atheism in favor intellectual honesty -- the pathways of the EVIDENCE... that a Creative Consciousness -- a Designer -- had to be involved... in the complexity of giving life to the elements...
Flew had not made a commitment to believe in (a) God... but he has abandoned Darwinism -- and the mechanics of abiogenesis as satisfactory explanations...
He followed the EVIDENCE -- and was honest enough to say so....
Dawkins.... as a quintessential (Oxford) know-it-all... Methinks is not at all teachable...
Let's wait and see what he believes when he is on his deathbed.
But at least he found his Mrs. Garrison.