The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins - review

Families with children

Richard Dawkins approval of science is both informative and controversial

Dawkins explains in child language, science is better than religion to explain how the natural world. "The stories are funny," he wrote, "and we all love to repeat" but "to seek a supernatural explanation explains nothing at all."

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is not really caused by the journey to the underworld Persephone, the rainbow does not say God's promise to Noah and the dawn breaks each day, although the sun Huitzilopochtli Aztec god your daily dose of human hearts still beating. Now that we know about atoms, the orbits and the light is refracted and Dawkins presents a clear division of the scientific method, his virtues, and what he discovered.

When

• The Magic of Reality
• was published in hardcover, illustrated profusely: a picture book for children. Now, with a beige cover, pages and images not 257, it becomes a less attractive proposition for those who need to know what are the tectonic plates and how the food chain. Level ranges from pre-GCSE science to the most advanced ideas: Doppler led scientists to the Big Bang model, the tails of comets "be caused by the solar wind, as radio waves are of the same material the light

explanations are interesting, but the ideas behind the central argument of Dawkins - that the physical world is fundamentally knowable, that the understanding of religion and science can not coexist -. Are more controversial

Dawkins defines the reality that can be perceived by the senses, detected with scientific instruments or models predict, such as black holes. He adds that "jealousy and joy, happiness and love," and that "depend for their existence on the brain." So we can say that zombies depend for their existence in the brain as well, and makes it real, Dawkins is simplification. This means that there are more feelings than the physical state of our brains and bodies: a belief that nothing unverifiable as Huitzilopochtli

Dawkins is currently fighting against the teaching of creationism in schools as an act of faith, and in this context, its support for the scientific method is important, but does not recognize that religion and science are not always trying to answer the same questions. Simplification of religious beliefs puts you in danger of preaching to the converted, in the best case and the worst case, suggesting to children that their fellow Christians, Muslims and Jews must be ignorant or stupid.

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