Dawkins identifies himself repeatedly as an atheist, while also pointing out that, in a sense, he is also agnostic, though "only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden".
Dawkins opetovano identificira sebe kao ateista, dok također ističe da je, u jednom smislu, on i agnostik, iako "samo do one razine do koje sam agnostik u pogledu vila pri dnu vrta".