SENSATIONAL RICHARD DAWKINS PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING THAT NO CATEGORY OF EVIDENCE CAN BE ACCEPTABLE AS AN INDICATOR OF GOD'S EXISTENCE

There was consternation this week after atheist Richard Dawkins told a press conference that there was now no category of evidence which he would accept as proof of the existence of God.

Mr Dawkins said that in his younger days he might have believed God was real if God had manifested to him as a disembodied voice, or if the dead arose, or if there was a second coming of Jesus.

But he added that he had become convinced by an atheist friend that even under those circumstances, he should not accept God's existence as these things could be caused by any number of alternative factors such as an hallucination or by what Mr Dawkins' friend called "an alien trickster culture."

Having stunned his listeners with this endorsement of unlimited scepticism, he then went a bit quiet before continuing in a strangely metallic disembodied voice of his own.

"There was darkness," Mr Dawkins stated. "And my spirit moved over the surface of the darkness. Let there be light."

The famous atheist biologist then exploded, obliterating the entire room.

Surviving journalists could not agree as to whether Mr Dawkins was wearing a suicide vest or whether he has evolved the innate ability to explode or even whether an alien trickster culture might not have been somehow responsible for him exploding.

Suggestions that God struck him dead were condemned this morning by the Biden Administration in the United States as being clearly the work of white supremacists.

Film director John Carpenter has announced that he will sue the estate of the late Richard Dawkins for ripping off the ending of Dark Star.