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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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ISBN10: 1416594787
ISBN13: 9781416594789
Publisher: Free Pr
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.43 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781416594789
Publisher: Free Pr
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.43 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of Intelligent Design in his latest New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth. Intelligent Design is being taught in our schools; educators are being asked to teach the controversy behind evolutionary theory. There is no controversy. Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence--from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics--to make the airtight case that we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection. His unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument, exposing the absurdities of the creationist position, into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its splendor.
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