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The Blind Watchmaker (Penguin Press Science)
 
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The Blind Watchmaker (Penguin Press Science) (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Author), Liz Pyle (Illustrator)
4.1 out of 5 stars  (33 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (3 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140291229
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140291223
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  (33 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 228,244 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Paperback (New Ed) |  All Editions


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Amazon.co.uk Review
Richard Dawkins is not a shy man. Edward Larson's research shows that most scientists today are not formally religious, but Dawkins is an in-your-face atheist:

I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence.

The title of this 1986 work, Dawkins's second book, refers to the Rev. William Paley's 1802 work, Natural Theology, which argued that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists.

Not so, says Dawkins: "All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way...it is the blind watchmaker".

Dawkins is a hard-core scientist: he doesn't just tell you what is so, he shows you how to find out for yourself. For this book, he wrote Biomorph, one of the first artificial life programs.

Synopsis
A controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection, discovered by Darwin, is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?


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