The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Blind Watchmaker Patiently and lucidly, this Los Angeles Times Book Award and Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize winner identifies the aspects of the theory of evolution that people find hard to believe and removes the barriers to credibility one by one. "As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been published since 1859".--The Economist.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 13 June 2006
- Format: Paperback 400 pages
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- Categories: Evolution
- ISBN 13: 9780393315707 ISBN 10: 0393315703
- Sales rank: 95,407
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Full description for The Blind Watchmaker
Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. Charles Darwin s brilliant discovery challenged the creationist arguments; but only Richard Dawkins could have written this elegant riposte. Natural selection the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process Darwin discovered is the blind watchmaker in nature.
