ISBN: 9780393315707
author:
Richard Dawkins
book format: Paperback
other title:
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
publishing house:
W. W. Norton & Company
publication date: 1996
-9
language:
English
price: USD 18.95
number of pages: 496
Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
overview
The title of this 1986 work, Dawkins's second book, refers to the Rev. William Paley's 1802 work, Natural Theology, which argued that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Dawkins: ”All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way... it is the blind watchmaker.” ...
