The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Audiobook
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Audiobook
- Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2009-09-22
- 16 h 30 min
Summary:
Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in British alone. He revolutionized the way we see organic selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Today, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of ‘Intelligent Design’ in his NY Times bestseller, THE BEST Show on Earth.
‘Intelligent Design’ is being taught inside our colleges; educators are getting asked to ‘teach the controversy’ behind about THE BEST Show on Earth: THE DATA for Progression evolutionary theory. There is absolutely no controversy. Dawkins sifts through wealthy layers of technological evidence-from living types of natural selection to hints in the fossil record; from natural clocks that tag the huge epochs wherein development ran its training course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from dish tectonics to molecular genetics-to make the airtight case that ‘we discover ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of lifestyle and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of progression by non-random selection.’ His unjaded interest for the organic world turns what might have been a poor argument, revealing the absurdities of the creationist position, right into a positive offering to the audience: nothing significantly less than a master’s eyesight of life, in every its splendor.