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"Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of \"Intelligent Design\" in his New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth.\"Intelligent Design\" is being taught in our schools; educators are being asked to \"teach the controversy\" behind evolutionary theory. There is no controversy. Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence&#8212;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&#8212;to make 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.\" His unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument, exposing the absurdities of the creationist position, into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master&#8217;s vision of life, in all its splendor."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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