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ask whether we can evolve to treat one another more civilly. Alas, he doesn't seize it." Coghlan also supports Dawkins "encouraging readers to be bowled over by the stunning beauty of reality – a sentiment I thoroughly support. Too few of us wake up each day and reflect on how amazing it is that we are not only alive, but aware of being alive." Phoebe liked the book, she writes "I was unable to put the book down. I found myself enjoying learning exciting new facts and having old ones reinforced. It was definitely no repeat of the classroom scenario... Perhaps the book's greatest asset is that it manages to bring science to life. The vibrant illustrations reinforce this, as do the fun font styles... His style is colloquial, creating a relaxed, lighter tone." Callum, who is closest to the intended age for the book, doesn't need to be persuaded about the bounds of reality, he writes: "Miracles don't exist. Simple as that.
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magic'. What I hope to show you in this book is that reality – the facts of the real world as understood through the methods of science – is magical in this third sense, the poetic sense, the good to be alive sense. In the rest of this book I want to show you that the real world, as understood scientifically, has magic of its own – the kind I call poetic magic: an inspiring beauty which is all the more magical because it is real and because we can understand how it works. Next to the true beauty and magic of the real world, supernatural spells and stage tricks seem cheap and tawdry by comparison. The magic of reality is neither supernatural nor a trick, but – quite simply – wonderful. Wonderful, and real. Wonderful
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photographs of all one's direct male ancestors arranged in order of birth date (or hatch date) from youngest to oldest stretching back millions of generations, from one generation to the next one would not perceive much difference between any two adjacent pictures – looking at a picture of one's grandfather or great-grandfather one is looking at a picture of a human – but if one looked at a picture from 185 million generations back one would see an image of some kind of fish-like animal. Dawkins stresses this point by saying the offspring of any sexually reproducing life form belongs in almost all cases to the same
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says: "His tone throughout alternates between real delight over how things work and avuncular pity for the people who persist in seeing an author behind the machinery of the universe... There is no plan, winks Mr. Dawkins, nor any divinity. There is just the 'magic' of the universe unfolding. If that
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article collates the reviews of Andy Coghlan and those of his 20-year-old daughter Phoebe and his 13-year-old son Callum. Coghlan calls the book "a triumph" but wishes Dawkins had a chapter entitled "Why do people do bad things to others?" saying "The book provides a golden opportunity for Dawkins to
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said that cancelling the reading "really violates the basic principles of America ... The Civil Rights Act ... prohibits discrimination based on race or religious viewpoint. ... published numerous books ... to explain science to the public, so it's rather an affront, to reason in general, to shun
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praises Dawkins' clarity in explanation: "He really is very good at this. The chapter on rainbows has the clearest explanation of how they appear that I’ve ever seen." Of the myths Dawkins uses Hawcock writes: "These, straw gods set up for Dawkins to knock down, are not up to the job of accounting
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Michigan executive director, Jeff Seaver, stated that "This action by The Wyndgate illustrates the kind of bias and bigotry that nonbelievers encounter all the time." Following the cancellation, protests and legal action by the Center for Inquiry against the Wyndgate Country Club were pursued. In
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Magic is a slippery word: it is commonly used in three different ways, and the first thing I must do is distinguish between them. I'll call the first one 'supernatural magic', the second one 'stage magic' and the third one (which is my favourite meaning, and the one I intend in my title) 'poetic
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It is a graphic science book aimed primarily at children and young adults. Dawkins has stated that the book is intended for those aged around 12 years and upwards, and that when trialling the book prior to publishing, younger readers were able to understand its content with additional adult
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to demark differences in gene composition – over often thousands of generations of separation – rather than from any one generation to the next. To illustrate this he undertakes a thought-experiment involving family photographs. If, hypothetically, there existed a complete set of
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In the opening chapter Dawkins explains that although mythic narratives and make-believe are fun parts of growing up, reality – with its fundamental capacity for beauty – is much more magical than anything impossible. The Fairy Godmother from
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review, calls the presentation of the physical book "prodigiously illustrated and beautifully designed", and regarding the content says "it is a distillation of so much that Dawkins has written and argued since the publication of
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mythology; Chapter 4 ("What are things made of?") omits mythology altogether as Dawkins says that really small phenomena were unknown to primitive peoples prior to the invention of advanced optical
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has also praised the book, calling it "engaging, well-illustrated science textbook offering compelling answers to big questions, from how the universe formed to what causes earthquakes."
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as foggy and so declines to delve very far into that topic. Dawkins declares that there was no first person, to make the point that evolutionary biologists use the term
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cannot magically turn a pumpkin into a carriage outside the bounds of fiction, because pumpkins and carriages possess internal organisation that is fundamentally
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that emerged as attempts to explain the origin of particular observed phenomena. Dawkins selects these myths from throughout the world, including
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signed a contract with Wyndgate Country Club in Rochester Hills, Michigan, as the venue site. After seeing an interview with Dawkins on
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for reality but at least give McKean some great subject matter." Meghan Cox Gurdon writing for the
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In the first chapter of the book, Richard Dawkins explains what he means with the title
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included the book in their list of the "Best Science Books of All Time."
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Coghlan, Andy; Phoebe Coghlan & Callum Coghlan (17 September 2011).
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In the subsequent chapters Dawkins addresses topics that range from
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is the view you wish your children to have of the cosmos, then
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During Richard Dawkins' October 2011 book tour, its sponsor
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
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Index


Richard Dawkins
Dave McKean
Bantam Press
Free Press
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
1-4391-9281-2
OCLC
709673132
LC Class
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
An Appetite for Wonder
Richard Dawkins
Dave McKean
Bantam Press
Free Press
creation myths
Babylonian
Judeo-Christian
Aztec
Maori
Ancient Egyptian
Australian Aboriginal
Nordic
Hellenic
Chinese
Japanese
alien-abduction

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