The Blind Watchmaker - SIGNED

Dawkins, Richard

ISBN 10: 0582446945 / ISBN 13: 9780582446946

Published by Longman, 1986

About this Item

1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped jacket. Signed by the author on the title page with no other inscriptions. Book and jacket in VG+ condition. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. I am happy to supply scans.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1735743980487

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Blind Watchmaker - SIGNED
• Publisher: Longman
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582446945
• ISBN 13: 9780582446946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The Blind Watchmaker

Review

Richard Dawkins is not a shy man. Edward Larson's research shows that most scientists today are not formally religious, but Dawkins is an in-your-face atheist:

I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence.

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".

Dawkins is a hard-core scientist: he doesn't just tell you what is so, he shows you how to find out for yourself. For this book, he wrote Biomorph, one of the first artificial life programs.