From the author of The God Delusion" Richard Dawkins' " The Blind Watchmaker" has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paleys argued in " Natural Theology" that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so says Richard Dawkins & in this brilliant & controversial book the acclaimed evolutionary biologist sets out to demonstrate that the theory of evolution by natural selection
- the unconscious automatic blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Charles Darwin
- is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? 'I want to persuade the reader not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true but that it is the only known theory that could in principle solve the mystery of our existence'. To Dawkins " The Blind Watchmaker" is nature itself gradually forming order from the very building-blocks of life: DNA. " This might just be the most important evolution book since Darwin". (John Gribbin). " Richard Dawkins has updated evolution.. .his subject is nothing less than the meaning of life". (" The Times"). " Enchantingly witty & persusive.. .pleasurably intelligible to the scientifically illiterate". (" Observer"). Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society & the Royal Society of Literature & Vice President of the British Humanist Association. He was first catapulted to fame with The Selfish Gene which he followed with a string of bestselling books: " The Extended Phenotype" " The Blind Watchmaker" " River Out of Eden" " Unweaving the Rainbow" & an impassioned defence of atheism " The God Delusion"."