Unraveling a Rainbow: On Science, Delusions, and Miracles

With his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins settled with faith as a means to understand reality. But God is not the only threat to science and common sense. The interest in astrology, homeopathy and other pseudosciences also remains a thorn in Richard Dawkins' side. Why does man want to be deceived by fairy tales and myths so much?
To ask the question is to answer it: man wants to be seduced by beautiful stories. There is no reason to leave the field of science for that, because Unraveling a Rainbow is exactly that: a beautiful story. The explanations that science has to offer often contain the most beauty. There is poetry in the formula, and fortunately we have Richard Dawkins to show that.
Richard Dawkins is an ethologist and evolutionary biologist. His first book, The Selfish Gene (1986), is still a classic in the field of modern evolutionary biology. With The God Delusion (2006), Dawkins attracted worldwide attention.
'Unraveling a Rainbow is an ode to the wonder of natural science, and a tirade against those who deny or destroy it.' GpD
'In this book Richard Dawkins searches for the poetry in science, for the excitement, the pleasure and the wonder.' Standaard der Letteren
'Dawkins is both one of the best popularizers and defenders of the theory of evolution in the world.' nrc Handelsblad