I've said it before and I'll say it again. Read Richard Dawkins' book The Magic of Reality. It's aimed at teenagers and young adults and it's expressed in a polar opposite way to Donuel's method, that is, it's clear, it's focused and everything is simply and straightforwardly given to us. Here's Dawkins' own introduction:

Magic is a slippery word: it is commonly used in three different ways, and the first thing I must do is distinguish between them. I'll call the first one 'supernatural magic', the second one 'stage magic' and the third one (which is my favourite meaning, and the one I intend in my title) 'poetic magic'. What I hope to show you in this book is that reality – the facts of the real world as understood through the methods of science – is magical in this third sense, the poetic sense, the good to be alive sense. In the rest of this book I want to show you that the real world, as understood scientifically, has magic of its own – the kind I call poetic magic: an inspiring beauty which is all the more magical because it is real and because we can understand how it works. Next to the true beauty and magic of the real world, supernatural spells and stage tricks seem cheap and tawdry by comparison. The magic of reality is neither supernatural nor a trick, but – quite simply – wonderful. Wonderful, and real. Wonderful because real.

Another contrast: Dawkins is believable. And a "scientist" who doesn't know how to communicate, and who is more interested in his own self-aggrandisement which he thinks he can achieve via obfuscation and twistery-mystery, is no scientist at all.