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The Evidence for Evolution
Free Press
October 2009
On Sale: September 22, 2009
480 pages
ISBN: 1416594787
EAN: 9781416594789
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Non-Fiction Religion
In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans
believed God had created man in his present form within the
last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42
percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its
present form since the beginning of time. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of
Species, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too
aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke.
But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at
the controversy still raging a century and a half later.
Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable
scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people
continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the
iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on
advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence
for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the
creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of
scientific evidence: from living examples of natural
selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks
that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course
to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate
tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements
and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find
ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a
blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no
accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by
non-random selection." The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time:
systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing
as never before. In American schools, and in schools around
the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the
status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a
devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded
passion for the natural world turns what might have been a
negative argument into a positive offering to the reader:
nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its
splendor.
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