KO Ms/Mr LH,

"I was simply saying that I'm quite curious to know what impelled him to take up that particular mission"

I have read all Dawkins books of popular science and The God Delusion - which probably doesn't fit into that category. If you want to know why he is currently doing what he is, it grows out of his accademic work which led him to write The Selfish Gene and his desire to explain aspects of the natural world.

I cannot remember the details but he relates going to a lecture on I think botany. The presenter finished his presentation by stating that the leaf that Eve covered herself with was not one but another - the names I forget.

This angered RD because the lecture was a serious scientific presentation and the man in question had confused science with mythology, for want of a better word.

Clearly their is far more to the later work of RD but The GD does some up a lot of where he stands and I repeat - it is thoughtful well written and funny. Give it ago

Best wishes

L in C#