Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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?The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale?
This is Dawkins second best-selling book on evolution, following his first, "The Selfish Gene." "The Blind Watchmaker" was first published in 1986, and this review is based on a third edition published in 1997. There were no revisions from the original except a new Preface and an additional... Read full review »
The Blind Scientist Misses the Point
Introduction
This book is written in the conviction that our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but it is mystery no longer because it is solved. With this stunning sentence begins one of the bestsellers of the last 10 years in the popular science category...
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The Undesigned Tree of Life
Dawkins draws his title from the writings of the 18th century philosopher William Paley, who made the argument that just as one can see conscious design in the specialization and complexity of a pocket watch--a complicated bit of machinery for his day--one can also see the workings of a creator in... Read full review »
A Watch May Imply a Watchmaker, But a Baby Implies Sex
Richard Dawkins is, along with the late Stephen Jay Gould (The Structure of Evolutionary Theory) one of the best known evolutionary biologists. Dawkins and Gould represent the public faces of a minor disagreement between biologists. Gould was the great proponent of "Punctuated Equilibrium" (see the... Read full review »
A ruthlessly convincing illustration of the process of evolution.
Having read quite a bit on evolution before this, I still feel that this landmark book deepened my understanding of the subject.
Whatever the opinion one holds of it, it seems to be a universal truth that everybody thinks they know what the theory of evolution is all about. Unfortunately,...
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Evolution Explained Properly
Even though it?s been hundreds of years since Darwin first proposed the theory of evolution, the issue is still hotly debated, or even worse, ignored to avoid the potential controversy.
The controversy regarding evolution is usually based on ignorance. How could something as complex as the...
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Demystifies natural selection
A lot of people have trouble really understanding evolution. Or they find it hard to conceive how a perfectly random process can create such complex creatures as ourselves.
This book clearly and "deeply" explains why it all happens by itself, why evolution is an automatism. It also...
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Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, with a New Introduction - Richard Dawkins - 9780393315707 - 0393315703
ISBN13: 9780393315707. ISBN10: 0393315703. by Richard Dawkins. Published by W.W. Norton & Co.. Edition: 96
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