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The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
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The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naively assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an edifice of tested assumptions, and just as physicists must assume the truth of gravity before moving on to quantum mechanics, so do biologists depend on the reality of evolution.

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The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
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The Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

Oxford zoologist Dawkins' book will stir controversy. Simply put, he has responded head-on to the argument-by-design most notably made by the 18th century theologian William Paley that the universe, like a watch in its complexity, needed, in effect, a watchmaker to design it. Hewing to Darwin's fundamental (his opponents might say fundamentalist) message, Dawkins sums up: "The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the evolution of organized complexity."
 
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes.
 
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
This book presents a vivid picture of how one man, by force of rigorous analysis and clear writing, taught a generation of biologists how to think about evolution.
 
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Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion The God Delusion
read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward
Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being.
Initially posted 2007-05-15
Updated: 2007-05-14 (book fixed-missing pages added); added a link to BBC-4 TV Show 'Hard Talk" - Richard Dawkins.
 
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