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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393315703

ISBN-139780393315707

eBay Product ID (ePID)732035

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Book TitleBlind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Number of Pages496 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLife Sciences / Evolution

Publication Year1996

GenreScience

AuthorRichard Dawkins

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-229669

ReviewsDawkins has done more than anyone else now writing to make evolutionary biology comprehensible and acceptable to a general audience.

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Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal576.8/2

Edition DescriptionReprint,New Edition

SynopsisTwenty 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., 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.", "The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years."--E. 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 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.

LC Classification NumberQH366.2.D37 1996