The Greatest Show on Earth – The Evidence for Evolution

The Greatest Show on Earth The Evidence for Evolution

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.

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One Response to “The Greatest Show on Earth – The Evidence for Evolution”

1. Vincenti Winchester says:

   November 15, 2009 at 2:21 pm

   Happy to see anyone of any religious persuasion doing great things.

   Atheism is a religious position, much more so that agnosticism.

   My theory is that there is a natural law that we all know.

   Even atheists say things like "That's not fair." or "You should have"

   They understand the moral law just as well as anyone else does.

   And, that law is born with all of us.

   We can call it what we will, but the law was given to each of us by "something" outside our universe before the Big Bang.

   It's OK if an atheist wishes to not postulate a banger. He or she will benefit in the eternities following the law that has been given.

   Regardless the source, when we leave this mortal realm, we will either find or not find that the natural law was given by a natural lawyer.

   Blaise Pascal bet on a law giver.

   But, either way, these guys are going to profit from their good deeds.

   Reply

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