Blind Watchmaker (Penguin science)
In De blinde horlogemaker spelen zowel Paley als Darwin een belangrijke rol.
Work Information
In De blinde horlogemaker spelen zowel Paley als Darwin een belangrijke rol.
In De blinde horlogemaker spelen zowel Paley als Darwin een belangrijke rol. De eerstgenoemde als belichaming van het geloof in een voor ede mens onbekende doelgerichtheid van de natuur. Darwin als ontdekker van het principe van de natuurlijke selectie. Uiterst boeiend schrijft Dawkins over zijn pogingen Darwins evolutieleer met behulp van computers na te bootsen. Het kunstmatige landschap van de computer verschaft meer inzicht in de ontwikkeling van de genen, de belangrijkste bouwstenen van het leven. [(bron)][1] [1]: http://www.bol.com/nl/p/de-blinde-horlogemaker/1001004005445663/?country=BE
Book Information
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Published
- 1991-02-05
- Pages
- 368 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780140144819
- ISBN-10
- 0140144811
- Price
- 827 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Nonfiction/Philosophy
From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paley's argued in Natural Theology that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Richard Dawkins, and in this brilliant and controversial book, the acclaimed evolutionary biologist sets out to demonstrate that the theory of evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Charles Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? 'I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence' To Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker is nature itself, gradually forming order from the very building-blocks of life: DNA. 'This might just be the most important evolution book since Darwin' John Gribbin 'Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ... his subject is nothing less than the meaning of life' The Times 'Enchantingly witty and persusive ... pleasurably intelligible to the scientifically illiterate' Observer Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and Vice President of the British Humanist Association. He was first catapulted to fame with The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books: The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Unweaving the Rainbow, and an impassioned defence of atheism, The God Delusion.
In 1995 Richard Dawkins became the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the bestselling author of THE SELFISH GENE, CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (Penguin, 1996) and UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (Penguin, 1998).
Reviews
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Excellent
Great book.
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Loved it
Dawkins is a master of presenting knowledge that would normally be inaccessible to a laymen like myself, in way that makes one feel very cleaver for understanding it. Wonderful book that describes the very complicated theory of Darwinian evolution in a way that made me amazed to look about at the miracle of life that populates our world with a new set of eyes.
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Logic is sketchy sometimes
Dawkins insists that you must choose evolution as the most logical option to account for our existence (and I agree of course, although it is nearly unfathomable even over billions? of years) and yet in Chapter 6 he pretty much asks for a leap of *faith* (he'd be outraged by my word choice), mathematically speaking, when he starts to write about the appearance of a "spontaneous" replicating mechanism. "How much luck is acceptable? blah, blah." It would be better to write something along the lines of, "At this stage our knowledge takes us this far. Until science becomes more advanced, we are unable to account for other aspects." As others have commented, this book is truly unnecessarily long. It could have been at least 1/4 shorter. There is a fair bit of "I'm right and you are wrong" throughout and his digressions are sometimes really long and hence not especially pithy.. One can skim a lot without fear of losing the thread. We should read it, but Dawkins' oeuvre has trouble spots.
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Good book, logic at the Best.
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Arguably Dawkins best book, 'The Blind Watchmaker' is exactly what the doctor ordered for the American religious fundamentalist epidemic that has plagued its society with dogmatically closed-minded, kindergarten-level refutations of evolution for too long. Unfortunately, this book is needed as much as ever over 30 years after it was written, and the reason for that has been shown to me over and over again in my personal life: the people who need most to understand the content of this book never than a few pages before giving up. That said, the well-articulated and technical descriptions are well worth the investment of concentration that the book asks of you.
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Muhteşem bir baskı kalitesi. Elime bir günde geldi.
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Comprei pra dar de presente ao meu marido. Ele gostou muito, já estava interessado nesse livro a um bom tempo.
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Extremely interesting.