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The blind watchmaker: why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design

✍ Scribed by Darwin, Charles;Dawkins, Richard

Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Weight: 492 KB
Edition: 30th Anniversary edition
Category: Fiction
City: London
ISBN: 0141026162

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

Life -- Origin

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