Clarifies the seemingly implausible aspects of Darwin's theory, drawing on the famous watch comparison argued by William Paley, the eighteenth-century theologian
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Richard Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
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