Abstract

This article focuses on the work of Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, addressed together with his earlier works – The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker – and contemporary atheism, personalized in the new atheism triad. In this text it is argued on the one hand that Richard Dawkins in his work confuses philosophy with theology and that on the other hand the author mantains a certain idea of science and scientific knowledge that is dogmatized. These two dimensions of his work lead me to conclude that his arguments in favor of the “new atheism” against religion are driven more by an endemic fundamentalism than by a justified rationality.