The Blind Watchmaker

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• Ways of Being Dead

  Our culture pays a high price for scientific specialisation. As individual researchers have come to know more and more about less and less, so they have increasingly distanced themselves – from one another, from interested amateurs and from the gener ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  The best answer to creationism ever given?

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  Leebeck said on Feb 29, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Great stuff!

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  Zermelo said on Nov 6, 2011 | Add your feedback

• I propose to make this book compulsory in all schools... :-)

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  Stefano G said on Oct 23, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Stupendous Critique Of Intelligent Design

  This book, along with Dawkins' Climbing Mount Improbable, are among the best ever demolitions of Intelligent Design's ideas about the origin of the diversity of life on this planet. Both these books are lucid, penetrating, humourous, erudite, and poetic. They both represent a devastating critique of ... (continue)

  This book, along with Dawkins' Climbing Mount Improbable, are among the best ever demolitions of Intelligent Design's ideas about the origin of the diversity of life on this planet. Both these books are lucid, penetrating, humourous, erudite, and poetic. They both represent a devastating critique of Creationism in all its forms and show the true magic and beauty of the evolved natural world where "apparent but not actual design" are watch words to live by.

  Along the way the reader is necessarily introduced to the stunningly simple principles of evolution and shown unequivocally how they give rise to the staggering array of diversity and complexity that surrounds us. This book, along with Climbing Mount Improbable, is one of the very best lessons in evolutionary theory available to the lay person.

  Unputdownable. A thrilling roller coaster ride through nature. A scenic route filled with screams of excitement and wonder. A workout for the brain.

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  Ramnagel said on Apr 22, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  This is a book that has been on my shelf for ages. It is an easier read than I expected. Dawkins is a fine writer; he is also a great debater - see him interviewed on youtube here:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijA5QGF7e6c

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  Tessellar said on Sep 20, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 368 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0140144811
• ISBN-13: 9780140144819
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Nov 29, 1990
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, 简体书, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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