But, I have to warn you that this book is a little bit bias. With witty and easy words to chew, it's perfect for teenagers. If you want to take the first step getting to know about science in general, then this one is good for you. Imagine! A non-fiction book I can finish reading in only one day! HAH! *snob* This kind of book is a perfect book for people like me whose background are soooo far away from science. I can finish reading this book in mere one day. It's a light reading book, although it's talking about general science. But for those who are open-minded, I bet there is no problem to accept the answers that have been provided by Dawkins. For those who are supernatural, myth, or whatever believers may quite difficult to accept those scientific answers. Next he would explain with scientific anwers. Dawkins first answered those questions with mystical anwers that are believed by some people.
Questions are "Who was the first person?", "Why do we have night and day, winter, and summer?", "What is the sun?", "What is the rainbow?", etc. There are twelve chapters in this book and all starts with a question. It is through such adjustments and subsequent testing that we approach closer and closer to what is true. If something were to happen that went against our current understanding of reality, scientists would see that as a challenge to our present model, requiring us to abandon or at least change it. Science thrives on its inability-so far-to explain everything, and uses that as the spur to go on asking questions, creating possible models and testing them, so that we make our way, inch by inch, closer to the truth. Of course Dawkins doesn't believe such thing.
And some (nowadays) people believe that volcanoes eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and diseases happen as a punishment for mankind from angry God. The Sumerians believed that rainbow was created by Ishtar, a god, as a token of the gods' promise that gods wouldn't send another terrible floods. The Aztec believed that they had to sacrifice human beings to please the sun god, otherwise he wouldn't rise the next morning. The Inca tribe believed that the sun and the moon were their ancestors. According to Dawkins, all people around the world basically believe in myth, magic, supernatural thing, that kind of stuffs, to explain every thing that happen.