Blind Watchmaker

Book Information

Language

English

Publication Date

April 6, 2006

Publication Location

Moskva

Publisher

Penguin

Condition

Used

Category

Evolution (Biology), Natural selection

Edition

28

Author

Richard Dawkins

ISBN

9780141026169

Information

kak ėvoli͡ut͡sii͡a dokazyvaet otsutstvie zamysla vo Vselennoĭ "The Blind Watchmaker is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the 18th-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"--Publisher provided.

Pages

368

Quantity

1

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2026-02-22 21:10