missnicelady 's review for:

Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

3.0

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After a couple weeks of slowly reading through this one, I gave up and skimmed the last 150 or so pages. This book was not as engaging as Blind Watchmaker or God Delusion, mostly because it's more of a biology text than a political treatise about evolution. I very much enjoyed the "what it all means" sections of the book, but those appear too infrequently between the "how it all works" sections. I can only read so much about fig wasps and nautilus shells. Still his explanation about the evolution of the eye clearly stomps on the Intelligent Design proponents, who often tout it as being far too complicated for anyone but the Almighty to have devised in his magic sky-lab. Dawkins wrote this book in the mid-90s, so he's definitely gotten more passionate and direct in demolishing ID arguments. This book is but a glimmer.