When science writer Amir Aczel read A Universe From Nothing, by Lawrence M. Krauss, he filled it with notes about everything he disagreed with, and considered writing a book of his own saying why he believes the universe did not emerge out of nothingness. Then Richard Dawkins insulted his daughter. Dawkins, the well-known scientist and outspoken atheist, was speaking at a conference in Mexico, where Aczel was also speaking. Aczel's daughter, a science sutdent, asked Dawkins a seemingly innocuous question. Dawkins said to her, “You can believe in unicorns if you like,” turned his back and walked away. Aczel's new book is called, Why Science Does Not Disprove God. “Atheists really have a very strong presence now in the media and claim that science has disproved the existence of God,” Aczel says. “I disagree with that. ... The state of science right now is not at the point where we can say there is no God. We have no evidence. I'm not saying there is a God, but to say that science proves
