An imagined conversation between Richard Dawkins and his maker.

God:  Richard, my dear friend.  It really is a pleasure to welcome you here.
 
Dawkins:  I don’t understand.  I’ve spent all my life building evidence that proves conclusively that you don’t exist.  If I were you, I’d be furious.
 
God:  But I created you just as you are, and I love you.  It is a pleasure to have you here, and I am really proud of the way in which you have used the intellect I gave you.
 
Dawkins:  Even though I clearly made a huge mistake?
 
God:  You never made a mistake.  You simply reached a conclusion from the evidence that you chose to chose to research.
 
Dawkins:  I never found a scrap of evidence to suggest that you might exist.
 
God:  Your scientific methods have been exemplary.  It was not your fault that you never looked at thousands of years of evidence for my existence.  It never was part of your field of research.
 
Dawkins:  I don’t understand.  What evidence had you in mind?
 
God:  The mystical experience of thousands upon thousands of your fellow humans over many thousands of years.  And often in complete isolation from other mystics.  Your learned colleague Carl Gustav Jung offered a very elegant theory to explain away the mystical evidence – it was obvious to him that there had to be some kind of explanation for such a large body of experience of this nature.  Like you, Jung did not want to accept the most obvious explanation for it.  He came up with the ‘Collective Unconscious’ concept.  It was so complex a theory that most of his colleagues misunderstood.  I find the simple answer is often the best.  In this case, I am the simple answer!  But as I have said, psychology was never your field.
 
Dawkins:  I understand.  But the work I have done in the field of evolution, and the connections that I have made with our growing understanding of DNA and genetics obviously pointed me towards humankind as part of a random process.  Where does this put the understanding of creation?
 
God:  First, answer me this: Is the human understanding of DNA and the genetic process complete?
 
Dawkins:  No, it is not.  I have wondered whether a complete understanding will ever be reached.
 
God:  Well, neither is my creation complete.  When I set the process in motion, I was in full control, and still am.  There is much that I want to show you.  You have spoken of genetic mutation as a random process.  You considered it to be some kind of mistake that happened from time to time.  It is my method of creation.  Whenever I introduce a mutation, it is to fulfil my purpose and to achieve the perfection which every human knows inwardly at the heart of their being.  Some see it more clearly than others.
 
Dawkins:  But there have been mistakes.  What about the unsuccessful creatures?  The dinosaurs died out, didn’t they?
 
God:  I have never made a mistake.  You mention the dinosaurs.  Your knowledge of the genetic process that I use has shown you that there is in every human a large trace of all that has gone before, and that includes the dinosaurs that I created.  All of past creation is represented in the crowning glory of my creation – and that, Richard, is you.
 
Dawkins:  Me?
 
God:  Yes Richard.  Humankind is the highest point in the process.  The mystics were right when they wrote that I made humankind in my own image and likeness.  This is why you spent your whole life pursuing such a wonderfully creative path towards greater human knowledge.  I am proud of you and of your work.  You spent your whole life praising the elegance of my creative process – in so doing, you were praising me!
 
Dawkins:  But I have clearly failed you.  I have made every attempt to convince others that you don’t exist.  What about those children I taught?  I proved to them that science and religion cannot exist together.  I have done great harm.
 
God:  You have not.  I made sure that each one of them sees evidence to the contrary.  All of them have the same freedom I gave you.  You have done no harm at all.  One of those children began to reflect on what you had said, and from that point went on to become a firm believer!  And you have added a great deal to the collective experience of humankind.  Come with me now, and let me show you the perfection at the end of my creative process …..