Come religios, witness the cruel disasters which an 'all-knowing, loving, all-powerful, creating god' is supposed to be able to surmount but manifestly doesn't. Stop cherry picking lovely bits of your fairy tales ! Faith is convenient and a comfort word but proves nothing.

Leon, Tavistock,

I do not believe in motor car manufacturers as it clear to me that they do not exist. They merely claim that they have "developed" the motor car, without showing me any proof.
But God is a different matter - look around you with your eyes open, and deny that you can see many evidences of creation!

Don Crome, Chorley,

God gave us science and free will. Used together and for the purpose of good, we can develop medicines for the ill, care for the sick, design and build safe shelter, grow crops in environmentally hostile areas to feed the hungry, set free the oppressed, and learn more about the world, life and the universe. Through science and free will, God has given us the tools to do good and live out lives our through our own decisions. (Typing this has just reminded me of Jesus's Parable of the Talents.)

Science enables us to look around and see the wondrous things in God's universe.

As far as I see see it God and science go together and not against.

Sue, Preston,

I am a scientist who believes firmly in God, I also believe firmly in Evolution. Genesis was a way of explaining beginnings in a symbolic way to early people. I believe in evolution and science and it does not shake my strong belief in God, in fact I see the beauty in it all around me. It does not have to be God vs Science, that is very illogical to me.

Before we found ways to look things as small as atoms and large as galaxies, the existence of those would have been rubbished too. Are we arrogant enough as humankind to believe that all because we have not fashioned an instrument or equation yet to 'see' God that he therefore does not exist?

There is a God and he is great.

M, Lancashire,

I am intrigued by the apparent correlation between those who claim to be entirely rational and those who type in capital letters. If it wasn't for Hume's critique of the fallacious desire to see laws behind every correlation (a fallacy bedevilling much science) I would suggest a theory is needed explaining the link ...

Andy Enfield, London, UK

God placed a quantity of energy, "e", in an environment of four dimensions; x, y, z and time. This produced the "Big Bang" and all the evolution applicable to our cosmos thereafter. I suspect God has been too busy with several million other projects to take much notice of what went on after our Big Bang - and, in pareticular, would possibly be amused by our use of the concept "Holy".
Our future is very much up to us as guided by science and morality and carry on doing as you would be done by.

Brian Woolf, West Chiltington, West Sussex. U.K.

I would say Fr B Storey look up the word 'irrational'

Then try to apply it to a claim there is such a nonsense entity as a god.

A brain that has taken millions of years to develop, that
cannot differentiate between the factual and the fanciful, is a disgrace to it's owner.

Rational? ....look it up. Nowhere will you see reference to such irrationalities as myth, legend, and scary fairy stories, as pumped out by the religious.

They fool themselves, but they do not fool the RATIONAL

morgan, Pontypool, wales

allen now you know what I've been saying about words like irrational...what's irrational to you is rational to Bryan ....and vice-versa same thing applies to "reason" and "logic"

ed bradbury, bournemouth, dorset

Richard Dawkins has given religion a wake up call...but not God. He sadly confuses the two and argues against religion, drawing God into his conclusions. There are a great many people who are disillussioned by religion, and many who do not believe in what they say, but who still nevertheless believe in God.

Consider the Old Testament, Genesis, and see how God formed a direct contact relationship with Adam, humankind, before the fall. Does that not indicate true intentions. From that point on, man created religion, not God, and politics has played a part ever since.

Richard Dawkins will be the catalyst that brings God back to humankind, if the religious groups are brave enough to focus on the truth and not the politics.

There is nothing that science has shown us which would disprove a creator; even evolution makes sense. When people realise we are eternal souls who happen to have a finite physical existence, and make social and moral decisions based on this, the world improves.

Gary West, Jakarta, Indonesia

Creation, Alan, is the evidence par excellence of God. Adequate explanation there has to be even if not visible. Just focus, day and night, on this point.

Father Bryan Storey, Tintagel, UK

Bryan -
1) It is a statement of IRRATIONAL belief to say "I BELIEVE god exists" - there is no proof of his existence .
2) It is a statement of IRRATIONAL belief to say "I BELIEVE god does NOT exist" - there is no proof of his non-existence either.
3) It is RATIONAL to say "I DO NOT BELIEVE god exists" - this doesn't have to be proved. It's a perfectly rational statement concerning my view of the world, without belief or "faith".
-- To put it another way, please accept the fact that the logical opposite of the statement "I believe in god" is "I do not believe in god". - This is not the same as saying "I believe there is no god", which is a statement of irrational belief in something equally unprovable.
-- Please excuse the capitals, but I'm trying to get my point home to you. If you reply claiming there IS proof of god's existence, then I disagree with you. But at least you must logically admit now atheists do not have a faith.

alan, cologne,

Really good reading Richard Dawkins who'se compellingly interesting, informative and provocative. On religious issues he says nothing I haven't heard for years. The 'non believers' have many more problems in their stance which is so irrational.'

Father Bryan Storey, Tintagel., UK