The great virtue of this volume, enchantingly illustrated by Dave McKean, is that it leads the young along the path of logical thinking instead of piling fact upon fact in an effort to tell children what they should think . . .

Nowhere in the developed world is this issue more important than in the United States, where the Christian right is actively engaged in trying to reshape public school curriculums to conform to its religious doctrines, keep evolution out of science classes and promote the lie that the founders established a Christian government . . . 

Dawkins’s book is dedicated to the proposition that the truths of nature are just as pleasurable and awe-inspiring as any fairytale.
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