Blind Watchmaker, The

Blind Watchmaker, The

Despite the theoryâ€™s age, The Blind Watchmaker is as prescient and timely 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 Darwinâ€™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 discoveredâ€•has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. â€œDawkins has done more than anyone else now writing to make evolutionary biology comprehensible and acceptable to a general audience.â€ â€•John Maynard Smithâ€œAs readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been published since 1859.â€ â€•The Economist
Country USA
Brand Brilliance Audio
Manufacturer Brilliance Audio
Binding MP3 CD
ReleaseDate 2014-11-18
UnitCount 1
Format Audiobook
UPCs 889290369697
EANs 9781491574492

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