According to Dawkin, It seems that evolution and a belief in god is incompatible. Dawkin doesn’t agree with God being the “mover” or “cause” to how society has formed over time. He states that people try to put this idea together that god is the one who created everything but if that’s the case, then instead of the word “god”, they could have used the word “terminator” instead. Dawkin believes that the beginning of time should be called the “big bang”, not just a made up name called “god”. If Aquinas was alive today he would respond to Dawkins saying that Dawkins has no evidence either. All Dawkins is doing is denying the fact that Aquinas has a point and how people just made up an unknown human, which is God, and made him the creator of life. Aquinas can easily say how the bible was made and how it is still used today. Using his “Nothing moves without a prior mover” concept, Aquinas can say there had to be a creator for the bible and that person who created it was influenced by Jesus, the man who was sent by God.
Dawkins definitely believe that the belief in god and evolution is incompatible. He doesn’t use much evidence or reasoning in his argument but instead he’s just attacking people who believe in god by saying that they have no one to turn to. He doesn’t show proof why there is no god and like you said Aquinas will say the same to him. I believe Aquinas has good info like you added how the bible was created from the teachings of god. Therefore god has to exist in order for these teachings to ever be exposed to us. There has to be a creator to everything, we use the same logic in real life. Everything around us had to start somewhere, it doesn’t poof like how Dawkins explains it.
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