Darwin - a man of Nature, Dawkins - a theoretician

Dawkins gives himself away in an interview where he is surprised at the altruism expressed by Wikipedia contributors. Only an anal self publicist, or a fool, would be surprised that people would want to share and be recognised in the process. The answer given by Dawkins was as revealing as I have heard from this writer, but typically convoluted and obscure - as is his approach to anything that seems to contradict HIS view of nature. The contrast between Dawkins, the academic, and Darwin, the natural historian, could not be greater in this respect. Darwin had his great idea through an intuitive link with Nature itself that arose from thousands of discrete observations. Dawkins, by contrast, is not attached either to Nature or to the religion that he continually attacks. My conclusion is that he sees himself as a messianic redeemer in the process of setting up a new religion of the sciences.