There is nothing blind about faith February 16, 2011 by Fulcrum One of the core New Atheist assertions, endlessly and uncritically repeated on New Atheist websites, is Richard Dawkins's dogmatic statement that faith is "blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence." By Alister McGrath, ABC Religion and Ethics, 14 February 2011 FulcrumShareTweetShare