The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Richard Dawkins

Sep 2015 · W. W. Norton & Company

About this ebook

Richard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution.

The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic. If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a blind one—working without foresight or purpose.

In an eloquent, uniquely persuasive account of the theory of natural selection, Dawkins illustrates how simple organisms slowly change over time to create a world of enormous complexity, diversity, and beauty.

Ratings and reviews

DNA survives by producing a carrier (creature) tolerating variance. DNA can spawn many carriers to support itself. The Darwinian process combining contributing causes with variation and chance to produce a result that can be trace back to the first living creature and its carrier tolerates environmental variation.

Amazing, a must read if you are passionate about the understandings of evolution and how it is important for our understanding.

About the author

Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and is the author of The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, and many other books.