... that life after death cannot be proved. The atheistic point of view towards this statement can be found in the arguments of Richard Dawkins. In his book "The Blind Watchmaker' Dawkins puts forward the opinion that the world and it's beginning had no purpose and that the idea of a designer is a misinterpretation of facts. He criticises William Payley's theory of 'the watch maker' and claims that we mistake the coincidences in nature for evidence of design. "the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way" Dawkins claims that the existence of natural selection contradicts the need for designer as such random, blind and selective acts would not exist in a pre-determined and planned world. He talks of a 'hierarchical reductionalism' in which he explains that the actions of a complex being are not designed, but determined by random interactions. He therefore discounts any chance of ...

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