Writing in the 2002 introduction to the reprint of "Evolution as a Religion" (1985), Midgley reported that she wrote both this book, and the later "Science as Salvation" (1992) to counter the "quasi-scientific speculation" of "certain remarkable prophetic and metaphysical passages that appeared suddenly in scientific books, often in their last chapters." "Evolution as a Religion" dealt with the theories of evolutionary biologists, including Dawkins, while "Science as Salvation" dealt with the theories of physicists and artificial intelligence researchers. Midgley writes that she still believes that these theories, "have nothing to do with any reputable theory of evolution," and will not solve the real social and moral problems the world is facing, either through genetic engineering or the use of machines. She concludes: "These schemes still seem to me to be just displacement activities proposed in order to avoid facing our real difficulties." "n exposing these rhetorical attempts to turn science into a comprehensive ideology," she wrote in "The myths we live by", "I am not attacking science but defending it against dangerous misconstructions."