Fundamentalist atheism

How, in all conscience (although, I imagine he would claim that such a thing is an entirely religious construct), can Professor Dawkins claim to represent the 'objective', 'rational' point of view?! I have just read the following article on the BBC website:

"Buses with the slogan "There's probably no God" could soon be running on the streets of London.

The atheist posters are the idea of the British Humanist Association (BHA) and have been supported by prominent atheist Professor Richard Dawkins.

The complete slogan reads: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

Professor Dawkins said: "Religion is accustomed to getting a free ride - automatic tax breaks, unearned respect and the right not to be offended, the right to brainwash children.

"Even on the buses, nobody thinks twice when they see a religious slogan plastered across the side.

"This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think - and thinking is anathema to religion.""

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm)

It is terribly frustrating to be told that thinking is anathema to religion after nearly eight years of academic enquiry into the nature and beliefs of religious thoughts and thinkers. It is also terribly short-sighted. As far as I was aware, science requires imagination: in order to move forward in scientific development, one has to have the ability to ask 'what if' all the time (not so different from story-tellers, historians, philosophers, theologians...). To claim that the current scientific understanding of the universe/humanity is the final say seems to me to be somewhat arrogant. I could be wrong, of course. Professor Dawkins may, in fact, have a hotline to all the unknown facts of existence. He may, indeed, be the closest thing us poor simple folk have to accessing 'divinity'. He certainly seems to think so... (How funny would it be if God actually did exist? Do you think he might develop a sense of humility? Having said that, humility, of course, has no evolutionary function, therefore it cannot in all honesty be understood to exist. Not even the possiblity of it. Scientific fact. Not closed-minded fundamentalist belief. Obviously.)

I do not claim to have the answers - but isn't that the beauty of it all? How utterly boring to know that you know everything.