{"product_id":"science-in-the-soul-selected-writings-of-a-passionate-rationalist-by-richard-dawkins","title":"Science in the Soul : Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins (Hardback)","description":"For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScience in the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e brings together forty-two essays, polemics, and paeansall written with Dawkins's characteristic erudition, remorseless wit, and unjaded awe of the natural world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Though it spans three decades, this book couldn't be more timely or more urgent. Elected officials have opened the floodgates to prejudices that have for half a century been unacceptable or at least undercover.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In a passionate introduction, Dawkins calls on us to insist that reason take center stage and that gut feelings, even when they \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edon't\u003c\/i\u003e represent the stirred dark waters of xenophobia, misogyny, or other blind prejudice, should stay out of the voting booth. And in the essays themselves, newly annotated by the author, he investigates a number of issues, including the importance of empirical evidence, and decries bad science, religion in the schools, and climate-change deniers.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dawkins has equal ardor for ';the sacred truth of nature' and renders here with typical virtuosity the glories and complexities of the natural world. Woven into an exploration of the vastness of geological time, for instance, is the peculiar history of the giant tortoises and the sea turtleswhose journeys between water and land tell us a deeper story about evolution.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e At this moment, when so many highly placed people still question the fact of evolution, Dawkins asks what Darwin would make of his own legacy';a mixture of exhilaration and exasperation'and celebrates science as possessing many of religion's virtues';explanation, consolation, and uplift'without its detriments of superstition and prejudice.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In a world grown irrational and hostile to facts, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScience in the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential collection by an indispensable author.","brand":"Winding Stair Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40526493909075,"sku":"","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0272\/0691\/0035\/products\/scienceofthesoul.jpg?v=1676044500","url":"https:\/\/winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com\/products\/science-in-the-soul-selected-writings-of-a-passionate-rationalist-by-richard-dawkins","provider":"Winding Stair Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}