The Blind Watchmaker

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The Blind Watchmaker

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ISBN: 9780393315707
écrit par: Richard Dawkins
format: Poche
titre alternatif: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
édition: W. W. Norton & Company
date de publication: 1996 -9
langue: Anglais
reliure: Paperback
prix: USD 18.95
nombre de pages: 496

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Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Richard Dawkins   

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The title of this 1986 work, Dawkins's second book, refers to the Rev. William Paley's 1802 work, Natural Theology, which argued 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 Dawkins: ”All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way... it is the blind watchmaker.” ...

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