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The Blind Watchmaker
It is the second deep-dive by Richard Dawkins, one of the pro-Darwinian biologists, in the evolution theory explaining the profundity of the best brain-child of the visionary biologist, Charles Darwin.
The book commences with Paley's Natural Theology that tried to vindicate the existence of a universal designer, just like an analogous watchmaker, who could design such a complex design of existing life. Richard Dawkins shattered one of the oldest anti-Darwinian theories on which many others are also based. Dawkins made it pass through a number of litmus tests on which it severely failed. Thereafter, the author moves to explain why if there exists any designer analogous to a watchmaker he would surely have been blind.
Dawkins puts forward a number of tests through which we must pass a theory before accepting. The computer biomorphs, typing monkeys, presence of histone H4 genes, etc. vindicate the concept of Darwinian evolution.
Quoting Dawkins, "The one thing that makes evolution such a neat theory is that it explains how organized complexity can arise out of primeval simplicity. " Anything simple we don't have propensity to decipher easily probably because of a bigger brain which, itself, is a result of continuous stages of evolution.
The expression of digitalness in the living organisms and genetic codes appealed to me the most in presentation filled with a number of mind-blowing theories related to sexual selection, arms race, linkage equilibrium among others.
The later part of the book contains vitriolic passages and the author seemed a bit sardonic to other anti-Darwinian and neo-Darwin theories where some sort of euphemism would have elicit some more encomiums from general audience.
It is the second deep-dive by Richard Dawkins, one of the pro-Darwinian biologists, in the evolution theory explaining the profundity of the best brain-child of the visionary biologist, Charles Darwin.
The book commences with Paley's Natural Theology that tried to vindicate the existence of a universal designer, just like an analogous watchmaker, who could design such a complex design of existing life. Richard Dawkins shattered one of the oldest anti-Darwinian theories on which many others are also based. Dawkins made it pass through a number of litmus tests on which it severely failed. Thereafter, the author moves to explain why if there exists any designer analogous to a watchmaker he would surely have been blind.
Dawkins puts forward a number of tests through which we must pass a theory before accepting. The computer biomorphs, typing monkeys, presence of histone H4 genes, etc. vindicate the concept of Darwinian evolution.
Quoting Dawkins, "The one thing that makes evolution such a neat theory is that it explains how organized complexity can arise out of primeval simplicity. " Anything simple we don't have propensity to decipher easily probably because of a bigger brain which, itself, is a result of continuous stages of evolution.
The expression of digitalness in the living organisms and genetic codes appealed to me the most in presentation filled with a number of mind-blowing theories related to sexual selection, arms race, linkage equilibrium among others.
The later part of the book contains vitriolic passages and the author seemed a bit sardonic to other anti-Darwinian and neo-Darwin theories where some sort of euphemism would have elicit some more encomiums from general audience.