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Loading... The Blind Watchmaker (1985)by Richard Dawkins
Classic book on evolution, but tends to drag a bit on most chapters. I was expecting a bit more on the "blind watchmaker"/complex design thing, but most of the book is actually about other related subjects. (  ) elviomedeiros | May 5, 2013 |  Dawkins is surely a genius -- but his arrogance sometimes gets on my nerves. The more he rails against creationists the more they twist his words to use against his ideas. The way I see it, with an issue like evolution, you either are ready to accept it or you're not. Even if I prove you wrong with perfect logic, you still think you're right. Right? I mean, especially when you're dealing with the dogma of established religion. I believe you Richard -- but they never will! (  ) Felixelhombre | Mar 31, 2013 | I'm really interested in reading about how the more complex systems we find in biology - the eyeball for instance - evolved over time. One of creationism's arguments is that mutations for stuff like eyeballs wouldn't happen - it's too complicated for one mutation to make. And it couldn't have evolved piece by piece because the individual pieces are useless without the whole system. Dawkins explains how things like eyeballs did evolve piece by piece by mutation, and how each individual step along the way was a useful mutation for the species as a whole. ( ) amaraduende | Mar 30, 2013 | Classic pop science about evolution Poor Originally published in 1985 and badly dated because of this (e.g. he’s oh so proud of his 64k computer) Dawkins is on his hobby horse of arguing against the creationists. I’ve read much better books on “why evolution is true” and this book dragged especially in later chapters. In addition Dawkins authorial voice is pompous and extremely patronising to those that don’t understand or question the validity of Darwin’s theory. OK creationists have got things wrong, young Earth creationists very badly so and they deserve a little derision but Dawkins argues with perhaps too much stridency and is therefore preaching to the converted. In addition Dawkins sometimes isn’t very clear in his explanations and even on a few subjects I thought I knew well I got confused by his explanation. Overall – Evolution deserves a less pompous advocate, there are better books about evolution out there (  )2  psutto | Nov 20, 2012 | ספרו הבא של דוקינס אחרי הגן האנוכי שבו הוא מסביר א ( ) amoskovacs | Feb 5, 2012 |
 Almost everything about this book – the instances, the writing, the passion, the lyrical imagery – confirms again and again that there is nothing dry about science, nothing heartless about research, and nothing unfeeling about the way a biologist looks at an animal.
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