Can Science replace God? The response of a new generation of atheist writers to this question is a resounding yes. Richard Dawkins, one of the outspoken representatives of this neo-atheist generation, claims in his book, The God Delusion, among other things, that ‘the existence of God is a scientific hypothesis’. He goes on to emphasise that the position towards which he tends to incline is that of a strong atheist who states that ‘I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung “knows” there is one.’