The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

How does natural selection work? Is it enough of an explanation for the complexity of living organisms? Is it even possible that a blind, ungoverned force created such intricate devices as the human eye or the echolocation apparatus of bats? Darwin answered these questions convincingly—and science, with each new decade, provides more and more evidence for his rightness, though many still doubt it.

Richard Dawkins’s famous book “The Blind Watchmaker” by the renowned English biologist, science popularizer, and opponent of creationism defends the evolutionary view of the world and debunks the myths surrounding Darwin’s theory. However, Dawkins never limits himself to a single problem within a specific scientific discipline—in the end, he talks about the philosophical foundations of a scientific worldview as a whole. His wit and broad erudition allow him to use examples easily from many different fields—from computer programming to Shakespeare—and that, too, has likely helped “The Blind Watchmaker” remain a bestseller for nearly three decades.