Dawkins goes on to say that although we are robots programmed by our selfish genes, ‘If we understand what our genes are up to … we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.’33 But how can robots rebel? In his book There is a God the British philosopher Antony Flew, previously rated the world’s most notorious atheist, examined Dawkins’ claim that we are merely machines created by our genes and came to this conclusion: ‘None of it is true—or even faintly sensible.’34