The Blind Watchmaker

Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Richard Dawkins

Preface to 1996 Edition

pX "Darwinism encompasses all of life ... It provides the only satisfying explanation for why we all exist, why we are the way we are."

The preface is well-written - articulate and well crafted. It displays the extravagant confidence of a "true believer".

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1. Explaining the very improbable

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2. Good design

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3. Accumulating small change

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4. Making tracks through animal space

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5. The power and the archives

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6. Origins and miracles

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7. Constructive evolution

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8. Explosions and spirals

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9. Puncturing punctuationism

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10 The one true tree of life

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11. Doomed rivals

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