In The Magic of Reality, Richard Dawkins brings science – and atheism – to teens. New Scientist reporter Andy Coghlan took it home to read with his family
JOHN LENNON famously found himself in hot water in 1966 after declaring that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”. In the US Bible Belt, Beatles records were thrown on bonfires by infuriated evangelists eager to prevent their children’s corruption by this pop icon. The question is whether the same fate will now befall arch-atheist Richard Dawkins’s new book, a lavish tome entitled The Magic of Reality.
Dawkins has repackaged his passion for…
