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Magic And Beauty Of Nature In Dawkins's In The Magic Of Reality

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In the first chapter of his book “In The magic of reality: How we know what's really true”, Dawkins seeks to show the readers the magic and beauty of nature as understood by science (Dawkins, 2011) (chapter 1), introducing them to several scientific concepts in the process. To do that, he had a series of ideas to tell in sequence and a general strategy and good writing style and organization he used for communicating and persuading his audience with his ideas. His general strategy included introducing arguments to his readers, persuading them with the usage of ethos, logos and rarely pathos (Williams, 2012), all while keeping them on the track by smooth transitioning. His style and organization supported the general strategy by …show more content…

They were sequenced as follow: his first was to introduce scientific well known concepts and methods that are used to discover reality and logically defend them. His second idea was contrasting scientific methods with supernatural magic and why he considers the scientific better where he attacked supernatural and promoted the scientific method. At the end he invited us to see how magical is nature, he connected with the previous idea through evolution by showing why supernatural cannot be responsible for it, while nature can and how magical is that (Dawkins, 2011) (chapter …show more content…

His good and convincing writing style was clear throughout his first idea and his general strategy was applied. He used real life examples to clarify and support his statements and concepts. He used camels for example to describe direct evidence, bacteria to describe indirect evidence, and atoms for newly known reality, each as a good example to one of the scientific methods by which we detect reality (Dawkins, 2011) (chapter

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