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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design | Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution. The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic. If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a blind one—working without foresight or purpose. In an eloquent, uniquely persuasive account of the theory of natural selection, Dawkins illustrates how simple organisms slowly change over time to create a world of enormous complexity, diversity, and beauty.
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MicrobeMom
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#7days7book This is that book that really made me understand evolution.

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taning
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Repeats concepts in other books. Not a bad read though

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This was a hard read... as in it was hard for me, because I'm stupid. I haven't studied Biology for over 30 years. I got as much of this as my brain was able to process and there was a ton of goodness, but I could have done with more anecdotes and slightly less God-bashing. I get that God-bashing is Dawkins' superpower, but his arguments for natural selection stand on their own without them having to be a refutation.

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Love or hate Richard Dawkins, (personally I find him quite an odious person) there is no denying that he makes a sound and balanced argument for the workings of the universe in The Blind Watchmaker.
I've always felt it a shame that he's so vocally intolerant of other people's choice of faith, because he's a compelling scientific and logical theorist, and if you can put aside your feelings, this is worth a read. My Folio edition shown here #folio