Jeff BezosFounder and former CEO · Amazon, Blue Origin
”Here is a passage from Richard Dawkins’ (extraordinary) book The Blind Watchmaker.”
Blind Watchmaker
Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins · 1986 · 496 pages
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About the book
Richard Dawkins offers a masterful defense of the theory of evolution by natural selection, responding to intelligent design arguments. Using the metaphor of a blind watchmaker (evolutionary processes without purpose or intention), Dawkins demonstrates how nature's apparent complexity emerges not from an intelligent designer, but from iterative natural mechanisms over eons. The book is simultaneously a lesson in evolutionary biology and a clear exploration of how science explains the natural world.
Essential for readers who wish to understand one of the pillars of modern biology and the scientific foundations of life.
Book details
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Blind Watchmaker |
| Year of publication | 1986 |
| Pages | 496 |
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”Perhaps the best display of expository scientific prose of the twentieth century.”
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