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Originally Posted by Angela

You are referring to a quote that is nowhere in evidence, and accusing Dawkins of setting up a false conflict that you have invented out of your own prejudice in order to advance your agenda of discrediting him. Kettle, meet the pot - you're black!

John Keats, whose lines Dawkins quotes with open affection, is the hinge which opens the door of this book. It is reported by the painter and critic, Benjamin Haydon that Keats, at a dinner, with Wordsworth toasted 'confusion to the memory of Newton'. When Wordsworth asked for an explanation before he drank the toast, Keats replied 'because he destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism'.

There is poetry in science. It's just that most poets are deaf to its rhythm | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books

I said:

I referred to dawkins quoting keats/wordsworth and setting up a false conflict between art and science,

What part of this do you not understand?