The Magic of Reality

by Richard Dawkins

We should always be open-minded, but the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.

In the Japanese Shinto religion the sun is the goddess Amaterasu, and the moon is her brother Ogetsuno.

In the creation myth of the Hebrew tribe of the Middle Eastern desert, the tribal god YHWH created light on the first of his six days of creation – but then, surprisingly, he didn’t create the sun until the fourth day!

Another god, Ishtar, created the first rainbow, as a token of the gods’ promise to send no more terrible floods.