The godless delusion, flights of fancy and pointless questions

THE letter from Fr Con McGillicuddy (September 17) really brought the Richard Dawkins’ disciples out in force with all guns blazing across your letters’ columns over the following weeks.

I expected all of Dawkins’ claims in his book, The God Delusion, to be strongly evidence-based. But a large part of it is devoted to general speculation and flights of fancy based on no evidence whatsoever.

He admits that the fine-tuning of the universe is remarkable and looks designed (it really does). His solution: the multiverse (no evidence).