Having dismissed God as being ‘very very improbable’ by resorting to the wholly fallacious ‘Who made God?’ argument, Dawkins moves swiftly on in The God Delusion to the next greatest problem, which is the mechanism of life. The explanation he gives is, unsurprisingly, that of Darwinian natural selection, which he variously describes as ‘a solution of stunning elegance and power’ and as that which ‘raises our consciousness to the power of science to explain how organized