pattern. Having neither patience nor sympathy with his opponents renders Dawkins almost completely incapable of presenting the arguments of believers in anything more than an inaccurate caricature. Ironically, one is reminded in reading Dawkins of the kind of acrimony that is often found among fundamentalist preachers who douse their opponents with scorn and ignite them with rhetoric to create a spectacle of combustion for their audience. The preacher seems thereby to be a true prophet, calling fire