The believer who trusts in God would probably no more add the statement “on the assumption, of course, that God exists” than the scientist would add a similar caveat about the Bunsen burner in his experiment. The difference between the two would be that the latter places his/her confidence in the material world, the former in the unseen world. The confidence of the latter may prove, and has proved, in time, to be misplaced. Another difference would be the areas of interest which are the focus of each. Dawkins treads on thin ice by extending the interests of the latter to the former. On the assumption that God exists, I would have thought that religion is privileged over science in the area of its interest.