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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.
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, and most recently, The God Delusion.
进化论方面的一部科普读物,虽然不错,但是很多理论并无新意。
评分进化论方面的一部科普读物,虽然不错,但是很多理论并无新意。
评分佳作,最后一章选择物种起源第一版的那一段精彩结尾逐句展开,充满哲思,书到结尾,故事却只是开始,当作如是观
评分读到40%讲Enzyme想弃了。。。有些说理啊举例还不错呢。。。哦原来是这个人写的
评分宣传无神论,为演化论提供evidence之作
可能是阅读倾向的问题,对我来说这本书相比《自私的基因》可读性要高的多——虽然是接近30W字的长篇幅科普读物,读起来却非常顺畅,连作者的零星的幽默感我也很好的get√了。 个人觉得良好的阅读感不光来自作者成熟的写作风格,更多是得益于作者良好的逻辑思维能力,在对神创论...
评分译者翻译的《物种源始》第一版 http://book.douban.com/subject/10825913/ 1859年,查尔斯•达尔文的杰作《物种源始》震撼了社会的核心。达尔文对自己的进化论可能引起的风暴自然早有意料,但恐怕连达尔文也想不到,这个争论竟然能在150年后继续存在。时至今日,进化已...
评分 评分理查德·道金斯对信进化论的人不如信上帝的人多感到沮丧。我不知道中国的情况怎样。但是我猜想,中国和西方有宗教传统的国家有一个有趣的对比,即,像这样西方的国家,人从小生在宗教氛围耳濡目染,产生一种“宗教偏见”,这使得他们直觉上更偏向宗教而不信进化论,就像洗脑的...
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