the hubris of richard dawkins atheism

Richard Dawkins: "The academic theologians, bishops and vicars will attack us for taking scriptures - or for accusing people of taking scriptures - literally. 'Of course we don't believe the Book of Genesis literally!' And yet they do preach about what Adam and Eve did as though Adam and Eve did exist - as though they somehow have a licence to talk about things which they know and anybody of any sophistication knows, are fictitious. And yet they will talk to their congregations, their sheep, about Adam and Eve as though they did exist, as though they were factual. And a huge number of people in those congregations actually think they did exist."

James Healy: "Mr Dawkins was speaking in 2007 at a supposed dinner with the late Christopher Hitchens and two AN Others. Did the dinner exist? We cannot know. There is no suggestion Mr Hitchens was late for dinner. I refer to Mr Hitchens as late in the sense that he has since died. In November 2018, Mark Stoeckle and David Thaler at the university of Basle claimed in a study of human DNA tissue that all human beings are descended from a single couple. Perhaps atheistic versions of science are ever so slowly catching up with the Bible. We should not be too harsh on Richard Dawkins. The year 2007 was a simpler, more innocent, more superstitious time."