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Item:THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH by Richard Dawkins

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH by Richard Dawkins

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Author: Richard DawkinsFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Free PrISBN-10: 1416594787
ISBN-13: 9781416594789Subject: Life Sciences / Biological Diversity
Publication Year: 2009Topic: --
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One of the oddities about the debate over evolution is that the evidence for its validity is so ubiquitous that scientists in the field simply take it for granted, and thus often fail to adequately present their case to non-believers. In fact, for many years, the most prominent living evolutionary scientist, Richard Dawkins, refused to participate in public debates with creationists because he felt it would only grant their spurious argument a level of undeserved respectability. Tired of watching from the sidelines as the dispute has dragged on, Dawkins has come out firing with this exhilarating and exhaustive defense of evolution, which should seal the coffin on the case for creationism once and for all. Dawkins packs a huge hammer, in the form of his vibrant wit, legendary intellect, and snarling disdain for evolution doubters, as well as a crate full of nails, in the form of his concise and lucid analysis of the fossil records which definitively demonstrate the process of natural selection occurring over millions of years. Dawkins's ability to elucidate the complex workings of evolutionary biology is unparalleled, and virtually every page is filled with fascinating facts about the miraculous nature of life which he hopes may cause a few religious followers to shift the direction of their wonder from an imagined heaven to a real earth.

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Length:470 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.5 in.
Thickness:1.5 in.
Weight:26.4 oz.

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The acclaimed author of The God Delusion and Selfish Gene lays out evidence in defense of the theory of evolution in a thrilling tour into our distant past and into the the interstices of life on Earth that will be released in time for the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

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"The author writes with terrific wit and considerable learning, but what is interesting here is his fire....Whether anyone will stand up to refute his notions remains to be seen, but for now Dawkins wins on points. A pleasure in the face of so much scientific ignorance--biology rendered accessible and relevant to the utmost degree."
 (07/01/2009)

"While THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH might fail as a work of persuasive rhetoric--Dawkins is too angry and acerbic to convince his opponents--it succeeds as an encyclopedic summary of evolutionary biology. If Charles Darwin walked into a 21st-century bookstore and wanted to know how his theory had fared, this is the book he should pick up."
 (07/13/2009)

"Though [Dawkins] looses a shock-and-awe flurry of evidentiary darts..., he also mutes some of the shriller tendencies that have unhinged...his previous works. The result is a sweeping, wryly joyous case for rationality, empiricism, and no God on this green earth."
 (10/01/2009)

"[An] eloquent paean to evolution....Dawkins has a nice sense of irony, deployed without mercy on the opponents of evolution....The book is even more enjoyable when [he] forgets the creationists and launches into evolutionary explanations..."
 (10/11/2009)


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