Many fundamentalist atheists have an abnormal sense of certainty about what they think they know to be. Humility isn’t welcomed company amongst the militant atheists, and they don’t come much more militant, or absolutist, than Richard Dawkins, the world famous author and enemy of all things religious. Yet here we have Dawkins in a debate calling himself an agnostic, of all things.

As his interlocutor says, and as Amazon.com says has right there on the page describing his book, “The God Delusion,” he is “the world’s most prominent atheist.” If so how can he call himself an agnostic? How wishy washy, Richard! You let even a fraction of a percent of doubt creep in and before you know it you’re making a pilgrimage to Mecca or Rome! But I do suppose this is progress to those of us who find the atheist’s explanation of reality wanting.

Near the end of the short clip Dawkins says, “The probability of any supernatural creator existing is very, very low.” The vast majority of the world’s population might disagree, and conversely be compelled to believe that the probability of everything that exists in the universe existing by chance coming from nothing very, very low, and 6.9 out of 7, impossible.