Dawkins’ strategy for undermining the possibility of religious truth is actually two-pronged: One prong is to show that religion has failed as a scientific explanation in biology. It is not necessary to invoke divine design in order to explain the intricate and beautiful adaptation to environments that we see in living creatures (See Dawkins, R, The Blind Watchmaker, (London: Penguin, 1991,  first published 1988). Most theologians would now agree with this. The other is to ask what sort of explanation of life religion is providing, if not a scientific one. It is then that he concludes that it is a genetic anachronism, offering bogus comfort to early humans in the face of their growing awareness of mortality. (See Richard Dawkins and E.O.Wilson against the possibility of the truth of religion).