The Greatest Show on Earth: EXP The Evidence for Evolution - Couverture souple

Dawkins, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1439191999 ISBN 13 : 9781439191996

Editeur : Free Press, 2010

Synopsis

Richard Dawkins revolutionized our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 1 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of “Intelligent Design” in his New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth.

“Intelligent Design” is being taught in our schools; educators are being asked to “teach the controversy” behind evolutionary theory. Creationists object that the world is too elegant, too complex to have developed without an intelligent designer and that there is no evidence for Darwin’s theory. Here Dawkins wields a devastating argument against such ignorance, sifting through rich layers of evidence to explain evolution. Though he exposes the absurdities of the Creationist argument along the way, his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master’s vision of life, in all its splendor.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the acclaimed author of many books including The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth. Visit him at RichardDawkins.net.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Free Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439191999
• ISBN 13: 9781439191996
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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