The Magic Of Reality Summary and Analysis

Written by popular science writer and biologist Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality is a clear and concise series of essays that explains science's role and significance in the modern world. The argument is that science has continually improved our understanding of the world and replaced many mythologies that never explained the very phenomena they claimed to resolve in the first place. This understanding, argues the author, is even more profound that even the bests myths dreamed up by ancient cultures, and science allows us to continually improve our understanding of the world. The book compares mythologies from across the world, which explain many of the same phenomena in the same way, with the understanding of these same phenomena through the lens of science, making the argument that not only is science a better way...