description: The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who made one of the most famous creationist arguments: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. It was Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery that put the lie to these arguments. But only Richard Dawkins could have written this eloquent riposte to the creationists. Natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process that Darwin discovered - has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. Acclaimed as perhaps the most influential work on evolution written in this century, The Blind Watchmaker offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.
language: English
title: The Blind Watchmaker 1.2: An Evolution Simulation/Mac Version
titlecomplete: The Blind Watchmaker 1.2: An Evolution Simulation/Mac Version
genres: Popular Science, Philosophy, Religion, Biology, Science, Genetics, Audiobook, Atheism, Nonfiction, Evolution
ratings_count: 38918
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Current Interest, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc