![]() ![]() 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. His use of a crime scene investigation as a parallel for the narrative is at times very effective. "Intelligent Design" is being taught in our schools educators are being asked to "teach the controversy" behind evolutionary theory. The Greatest Show on Earth is not a bad book Dawkins wouldn’t know how to do that. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth. ![]() He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. ![]() ![]() Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone. ![]()
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