The nub of Dawkins's consciousness- raising message is that to be an atheist is a "brave and splendid" aspiration. Belief in God is not only a delusion, he argues, but a "pernicious" one. On a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 is certitude that God exists and 7 is certitude that God does not exist, Dawkins rates himself a 6: "I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there."
[WS:] I would rank myself at 6.95. Before you consider whether it is likely that something exists, you have to have to have a coherent concept of that something. I do not think, however, that there is even a coherent concept of 'god.' It is just a word that people say to express their emotions, like geee, wow, hmmm, duh, etc. While these sounds express real thing - human emotions - it would be nonsensical to ask "Does gee, wow, or duh exist?"
So if you ask, "are there things out there that today's science cannot even conceptualize?" The answer is "very likely." If you ask "will these things become known to science" the answer is "some probably will, other probably won't." If you ask "will those things evoke human emotions, like reverence or fear, when they are discovered?" the answer again is "probably." But if you ask "as those things 'wow' 'gee' of 'god'?" the answer is "this questions does not even makes sense."
Wojtek