The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
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—has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker in nature.
"Dawkins has done more than anyone else now writing to make evolutionary biology comprehensible and acceptable to a general audience" -- John Maynard Smith
"As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been published since 1859." -- The Economist
"As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been published since 1859." -- The Economist
Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and is the author of The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, and many other books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393315707 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393315703 |
| Title | The Blind Watchmaker |
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2006-06-13 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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