Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with
colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science
for justification of their religious convictions while evading the most
difficult implications.the existence of a prime mover sophisticated
enough to create and run the universe, "to say nothing of mind reading
millions of humans simultaneously." Such an entity, he argues, would
have to be extremely complex, raising the question of how it came into
existence, how it communicates .through spiritons!.and where it resides.
Dawkins is frequently dismissed as a bully, but he is only putting
theological doctrines to the same kind of scrutiny that any scientific
theory must withstand. No one who has witnessed the merciless dissection
of a new paper in physics would describe the atmosphere as overly polite.

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