i find it sad that dawkins feels so compelled to bash religion in a way that he doesn't want to be religious, i think we can all respect that. The empirical method has been hugely powerful and there is no question that science is a productive way of approaching the world. Science doesn't tell us the meaning of life or if there even is a reason why we're here. And for many people, religion plays an important role in guiding their moral values,. Their beliefs about, you know, why they are here. There's no evidence, to take dawkins perspective that being a person of faith stands in way of being a scientist, or vice versa.