false 6117055 9 6295163 book 10 9 2009 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution total:205|5:82|4:86|3:34|2:3|1:0| 205 862 949 74 5 0 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:53:27 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 11:01:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 12:05:52 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 12:06:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 01:30:55 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 02:35:58 -0700 2009 Written by Richard Dawkins as a step-by-step rebuttal for natural selection against creationism, "The Greatest Show On Earth" attempts to arm its like-minded reader with an arsenal of facts, ostensibly for use in debate with Biblical literalists. Which begs the question, why bother? ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 06:22:10 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 06:25:24 -0700 2009
So Dawkins ardently asserts by page seven of his latest coup de grace of scientific reasoning and logical deduction which is easily d...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 02:34:16 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 02:40:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 12:32:39 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:15:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 05:06:52 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 05:15:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 18:52:51 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 19:49:32 -0800 2009
It kind of reminds me of my review of I am a Strange Loop which parallels The God Delusion. Though the subject being discussed is somehow scientifically justifiable but it f...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 09:28:11 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 12:17:41 -0800 2009
1. I am an atheist.
2. I am a molecular biologist.

So, I am clearly not the target audience. That being said, I really wanted to like this book. I am so happy that there are people out there who are speaking out in defense of evolu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 21:20:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 18:56:34 -0700 2009
There is admittedly some criticism of the current lack of belief in evolution among a significant m...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 11:43:09 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 11:43:09 -0800 2009
First, the format suffers organizationally. The book is written as a rebuttal to creationist arguments, but Dawkins addresses those arguments by interspersing them, in no coherent order, within affirmative...more...]]> 0 2 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 10:22:45 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 14:14:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 19:42:03 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 18:47:33 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 21 07:26:40 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 08:03:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 15:19:33 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 15:47:37 -0700 2009 Dawkins has always had a knack for making the complexities of science accessible to liberal-arts types like myself without dumbing down the very c...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 09:49:32 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 04:18:22 -0700 2009 only way to explain statistically improbable organisms through a simple mechanism' (I paraphrase, he says it so often that he probably use...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 02:10:18 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 02:13:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 16:21:35 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 22:49:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Oct 03 10:57:22 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 10:57:29 -0700 2009
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
By Richard Dawkins (Free Press)
After sparking global controversy even among atheists with The God Delusion, Cambridge biologist Richard Dawkins takes a more emollient and fact-based approach in dismantling ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 21:37:49 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 23:24:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6117055