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The Greatest Show on Earth
- 470 pages ยท about 8 hours
- First published 2009
- 12 editions
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1 About this book
Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution. Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely 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. In The Greatest Show on Earth Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection.
Good for readers who want: evolution, science, philosophy, and a long read.
- Evolution
- Science
- Human evolution
- Religion and science
- Philosophy
- Biological Evolution
- Origin
- Life
2 About Richard Dawkins
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 More by Richard Dawkins
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