The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design Dawkins, Richard

The best general account of evolution I have read in recent yearsE O Wilson With a new introduction 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 eighteenthcentury 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 Darwins brilliant discovery challenged the creationist arguments; but only Richard Dawkins could have written this elegant riposte Natural selectionthe unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process Darwin discoveredhas 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 ISBN10: 0393315703 ISBN13: 9780393315707Material Type: paperback