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  <title><![CDATA[The Blind Watchmaker]]></title>
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  <default-description>Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.  A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all:  why do we exist?</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1986</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dawkins is surely a genius -- but his arrogance sometimes gets on my nerves.  The more he rails against creationists the more they twist his words to use against his ideas.  The way I see it, with an issue like evolution, you either are ready to accept it or you're not.  Even if I prove you wrong wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30379283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[wow and double wow. i read this through and turned back to p.1 to read it again. <br/><br/>blind watchmaker has been amazingly influential in the way i think about just about everything- the world, existence, life forms, physics- down to the micro, myself and my craft. it's sent chills down my spi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31720950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enchantingly beautiful fiction, 23 Mar 2007 <br/>                <br/><br/>Musings of a fideist (a materialistic fideist). <br/><br/>Richard Dawkins has a breathtaking gift for expressive, catchy writing. His handling of illustration and narrative flow like silk. Yet he reminds me of an eloquen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7349669">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was okay, but since I already am convinced evolution occurs by natural selection, I felt like he was not preaching to the choir, but trying to convince the choir. Of course, I got tired of it after a while (but I had to keep going, because I had to read it for a class). He comes up with ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13549201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60863583">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dawkins is one of my top picks for the most articulate, engaging and proficient scientists I've read to date. The Blind Watchmaker turned out to be a very prolific piece. I was baffled by his logical analogies, most excellent examples and extremely engaging vernacular. <br/>In this work, one learns...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60863583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64056146">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished. I'd already read &quot;The Selfish Gene,&quot; so this covered some similar ground but in more depth. As an intelligent nonscientist, I found it a good introduction to a modern understanding of evolution, mostly accessible, though a bit dense in a few sections.<br/><br/>As a refutat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64056146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70514380">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a little disappointed here. This was my introduction to Richard Dawkins, and maybe I just picked the wrong book. I was hoping to learn more about the fascinating world of evolutionary biology, but instead got a long-winded, all-over-the-map apologetic response to Creationism and various oddities...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70514380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I don't agree with Dawkins much of the time (I find his atheism as fanatical as the religions he criticises), but find him an intelligent and entertaining read. He posits the other side of the coin to the argument for &quot;&quot;intelligent design&quot;&quot;. Some very funny correspondence i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22737524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The introduction declares that this book is advocacy for the concept of evolution.  &quot;... You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.  This book is not a dispassionate scientific treatise.&quot;  The frequent reference to religious controversy reminds me of a Sherl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61839091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a strong believer in Darwinism but one of the strongest arguments (or so I thought) against Darwin's theory came from William Paley in the 18th century through the &quot;watchmaker arguement.&quot;  Though it made sense to me, I was distrustful of this arguement so in attempting to find out why...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74401506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dawkins has a down-to-earth, humorous at times, way of explaining difficult concepts in a simple manner. His presentation of evolution as traveling through a &quot;space&quot; of animals, his discussion of Cairns-Smith's theory of the origin of life, and his explanation of the variable rates that ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58877823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32062468">
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrifically fun to read.  If you ever felt like kicking a right-wing born again evangelical Christian who denies evolution in the shins -- well this book is at least that satisfying!]]></body>
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    <review id="60410196">
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading this book. It was written in the late 80's by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. It is a detailed description of how evolution works with many examples. It also goes into various 1980's computer models of evolution, which is kind of entertaining to read in 2009. There ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60410196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61801031">
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, this is a difficult review. I feel as if I need to explain my own view about religion before I can properly review this book, but honestly, I don't care much for discussing religion on the internet, in a book review. So, to make it short, I'm an atheist. In fact, (and to quote Douglas Adams, bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61801031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41427585">
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins’ book exposes the flaws of William Paley’s famous watchmaker analogy. Dawkins frequently presents the grandeur of our species and the physical world, arguably in part to appease those who think atheists don’t appreciate or value life. Therefore, I really appreciated Dawkins’ ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41427585">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is probably the first time that I've found Dawkins to be anything short of immensely fascinating. I've already read and thoroughly enjoyed his earlier books <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene_30th_Anniversary_Edition" title="The Selfish Gene  30th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins">The Selfish Gene</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype_The_Long_Reach_of_the_Gene" title="The Extended Phenotype  The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins">The Extended Phenotype</a>, and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117047.The_Blind_Watchmaker" title="The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins">The Blind Watchmaker</a> covers a lot of the same ground, albeit in a more popularly acc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38967431">more...</a>]]></body>
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