Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion created a storm of controversy over the question of God's existence. Now, in The Greatest Show on Earth, Dawkins presents a stunning counterattack against advocates of "Intelligent Design" that explains the evidence for evolution while keeping an eye trained on the absurdities of the creationist argument.
More than an argument of his own, it's a thrilling tour into our distant past and into the interstices of life on earth. Taking us through the case for evolution step-by-step, Dawkins looks at DNA, selective breeding, anatomical similarities, molecular family trees, geography, time, fossils, vestiges and imperfections, human evolution, and the formula for a strong scientific theory.
Dawkins' trademark wit and ferocity is joined by an infectious passion for the beauty and strangeness of the natural world, proving along the way that the mechanisms of the natural world are more miraculous -- a "greater show" -- than any creation story generated by any religion on earth. - Berkeley Arts and Letters
Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and, until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology.
He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale The God Delusion, and most recently, The Greatsest Show on Earth.
Professor Dawkins's awards have included the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1989), the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award (1990), the Nakayama Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1990), The International Cosmos Prize (1997) and the Kistler Prize (2001).
He has Honorary Doctorates in both literature and science, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. (ForaTv)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is a captivating book. Dawkins challenges religion by using science to show why an intelligent designer called God is fake. The book focuses on the three main religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism. In the very beginning of the book, Dawkins says we are all atheist but some go one god farther. That statement really means a lot because people are just born into a religion and do not even give other religions a chance. Dawkins claims if one religion is right, the world would notice which one is because of the good fortune that would happen to the people who practice that religion. Dawkins says that religion is good in that it helps build strong morals, but at the same time he says if relgion is the only thing making you be a good person, then you need to make big changes in your life. Dawkins talks about the Egyptians who built massive pyramids for their gods, and that we now know their god is obviously not true. Dawkins also claims religion in school hinders learning in that, the Bible says the Earth is somewhere near six thousand years old. We know today that the world is four and a half billion years old.
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