According to Dawkins the question as to the purpose of the Universe is "STUPID". Why is the question stupid? Because Richard Dawkins can't answer it. Thus Dawkins belittles his customer. Children go through a phase where they play a little game called WHY? They badger their parents with ever increasingly diffcult "WHY"'s until they can no longer answer. At that point, the frustrated parent pulls rank. "Because I said so! Now go brush your teeth and get to bed!"

Thus Richard Dawkins' rather egotistical ambition to rid the world of religion has hit a wall. In his exuberance, he has ignored that science, philosophy and religion though interelated and sharing common characteristics are not interchangeable. No Dawkins appears not have thought far or deeply enough into this issue.

There is probably not a being on planet Earth who has not asked these questions. What is the purpose and meaning of life? Why are we here? So is everybody who has asked this question throughout history just been STUPID for asking? Has there been no intelligent life on Earth before the appearance of Richard Dawkins?

Science may one day explain the mechanism behind everything. But it won't explain WHY? Simply to bury your head in the sand and to ignore the question and worse yet, to label it as STUPID is guaranteed to lose you points even at the high school debate level.