Quote Originally Posted by Gofer Blue View Post
Pull the other one. Most atheists have never heard of Dawkins - your'e having a larf as my Essex friend Roy would say!!!
Listening to your Essex friend Roy may be one of your mistakes.

There are probably 500 million full-on atheists in the world - and a much larger number who dabble with cultural religious rituals and those who adopt agnosticism as a label because they philosophocally allow for a degree of doubt about everything, even though they don't believe in a deity.

Over 200 million of those people are in China which is not a hotbed of Richard Dawkins study groups!

I would be amazed if even 5% of worldwide atheists recognised the name of Richard Dawkins. Most atheists I have known over the years in the UK (thousands of them) do not know Richard Dawkins or his books. Why would they? Their non-belief in any god is because they have no reason to believe in a god. They think it's infantile and/or deluded and has no relevance to their lives.

Which is right.