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.
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.
对于读过道金斯书的人来说,这本的新东西不多,基本是之前论据的重新排列和之前观点的重新展示,读或不读,影响不大。说起来这本书也确实不是道金斯为他的粉丝(或说演化论者)写的。至于为谁而写,开头部分已经说的很清楚了,是那占英国和美国人口40%、让道金斯耿耿于怀的神创...
評分在无神论的教育下长大的我们也许听到这个数字会感到惊讶:原来美国仍有超过40%的人相信地球上的生物包括人类是上帝创造,而达尔文的进化论根本是无稽之谈! 也许你会嘲笑这些愚昧的上帝的子民。换个角度,你是否想过我们毫无保留的接受了进化论,正像我们接受了很多普世理论和...
評分道金斯《地球上最伟大的表演》这本书,讲的是演化论无处不在、蔚为壮观的证据。演化论在我国是义务教育就普及的知识,但背后硬核证据,却提及不多。种种怀疑,民间并不罕见。本书用丰富的证据,雄辩的逻辑证明,多姿多彩的自然界,绝不是某种高高在上的大能设计师设计的,而是...
評分道金斯的几本书纠正了我的一系列错误观点。 1、生物有所谓高级和低级之分。人类中心论。人比蟑螂高级,不过如果美苏脑子抽筋互发核弹,人类死光了,蟑螂可能还能生存,到底谁高级呢? 2、人是有猴子进化来的。峨眉山上那些讨厌的猴子跟人类祖先不是同一种猴子啦,人与现在的猴...
評分理查德·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...
The greatest party ????
评分這本書就是純為八卦而看瞭。
评分佳作,最後一章選擇物種起源第一版的那一段精彩結尾逐句展開,充滿哲思,書到結尾,故事卻隻是開始,當作如是觀
评分The greatest party ????
评分讀到40%講Enzyme想棄瞭。。。有些說理啊舉例還不錯呢。。。哦原來是這個人寫的
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