The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution

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Charles Darwin's masterpiece On the Origin of Species shook society to its core on publication in 1859 Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century & a half later Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists & indeed theologians yet millions of people continue to question its veracity In The Greatest Show on Earth Richard Dawkins takes on creationists including followers of ' Intelligent Design' & all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection Like a detective arriving on the scene of a crime he sifts through fascinating layers of scientific facts & disciplines to build a cast-iron case from the living examples of natural selection in birds & insects; the 'time clocks' of trees & radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution; the fossil record & the traces of our earliest ancestors; to confirmation from molecular biology & genetics All of this & much more bears witness to the truth of evolution The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is now flourishing as never before especially in America In Britain & elsewhere in the world teachers witness insidious attempts to undermine the status of science in their classrooms Richard Dawkins provides unequivocal evidence that boldly & comprehensively rebuts such nonsense At the same time he shares with us his palpable love of the natural world & the essential role that science plays in its interpretation Written with elegance wit & passion it is hard-hitting absorbing & totally convincing