The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

by Richard Dawkins

Raven on cuckoos. These lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, which then act as unwitting foster parents.

For instance, the mother has the habit of laying in other birds’ nests, and the baby has the habit of throwing the host’s own chicks out of the nest.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

The ‘watchmaker’ that is cumulative natural selection is blind to the future and has no long-term goal.

The "watchmaker" is cumulative natural selection.

Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves. They find this belief comforting when a computer beats them, but their belief is utterly false.

That's sad.