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Originally Posted by Angela  I do not understand why you keep saying that Dawkins quotes keats/wordsworth and sets up a false conflict between art and science. That part.
The above quote is from a reviewer who incidentally states that Dawkins quotes Keats affectionately in his book. He does not refer at all to Dawkins quoting Wordsworth. Dawkins does not quote anybody at all in this reference. The reviewer recounts an anecdote from painter and critic Benjamin Haydon. If Mr. Haydon is correct in his account, the it's KEATS who has set up a conflict. If Mr. Dawkins has included this third-hand anecdote in his book, which we don't know, because neither of us has read it, we can't know the context he's using, or what he thinks of what Keats has said, until we READ THE BOOK. Which you've said you will never do. Therefore, you are declaring that you will remain forever ignorant about the very subject you denounce so indignantly. Your are propounding a deceitful prejudice.
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Umm then how can you be so sure i am wrong. The title of the book is:
"
Unweaving The Rainbow by Richard Dawkins,"
after the reviewer uses those examples and quotes he writes:
Three years later, in 'Lamia', Keats wrote: 'Do not all charms fly/ At the mere touch of cold philosophy?/ There was an awful Rainbow once in heaven.'
Part of Dawkins's purpose here
Implying that Dawkins uses them in the book.
As I mentioned, there are poets that used scientific tools to describe love (donne, i think) I referred to the anatomical training classically trained artists receive...to illustrate - Dawkins is trying ...oh forget, just re-read what i said if you care to, I am done going around in circles like this.