That being the case, from whence came this idea of “God,” if God does not exist? Of course, in Lenin’s mind, “God” was an opiate of the people, an insidious lie sown in fertile imaginations by religious leaders in order to control lesser mortals. But where did the preachers get this idea of “God”? Lenin was unable to answer that question, and it bothered him. Dawkins, of course, has a “scientific” answer to the problem. It is quite ingenious. For their own deceptive purposes, the genes imposed this belief in God through evolution and natural selection.