The blind watchmaker
why evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design
by Richard Dawkins
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The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who made one of the most famous creationist arguments: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. It was Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery that put the lie to these arguments. But only Richard Dawkins could have written this eloquent riposte to the creationists.
Natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process that Darwin discovered - has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
- Acclaimed as perhaps the most influential work on evolution written in this century, The Blind Watchmaker offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.
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Natural selection, Evolution (Biology), Evolution, Biodiversity, Evolution., Evolution. 0, open_syllabus_project, Evolutionstheorie, Selection naturelle, Evolutie, Natuurlijke selectie, Biological Evolution, Genetic Selection, Darwinismus, Biology, Genetics, Genetic inheritance, Popular Science, Evolution (biologi), Naturligt urval, Qh366.2 .d37 1986, 575Showing 7 featured editions. View all 28 editions?
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.
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"We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe."
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In De blinde horlogemaker spelen zowel Paley als Darwin een belangrijke rol. De eerstgenoemde als belichaming van het geloof in een voor ede mens onbekende doelgerichtheid van de natuur. Darwin als ontdekker van het principe van de natuurlijke selectie. Uiterst boeiend schrijft Dawkins over zijn pogingen Darwins evolutieleer met behulp van computers na te bootsen. Het kunstmatige landschap van de computer verschaft meer inzicht in de ontwikkeling van de genen, de belangrijkste bouwstenen van het leven.
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