The Blind Watchmaker
Author: Richard Dawkins
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 Paley’s 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. N….Read More
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