Blind Watchmaker

TAG: Science, Evolution of life
Rating: 4 / 5 worms

Richard Dawkins is one of the bests when it comes to writings on origin of life on earth. He is lucid, vivid and focused. He provides both evidence and logic to substantiate his support for the theory.

Origin of life continues to be a subject of contention since hundreds of years.
The book is in defense of the Darwin’s theory of origin. The book also comes with a software which simulates how a minor change magnifies in millions of years to produce entirely separate lineages. The crux of the book is that a minor change which is called mutation happens accidentally and produces most spectacular results, hence, the book is called 'blind' watchmaker. Millions of years of evolution, scale unimaginable for human mind whose life barely stretches few decades, provide fantastic plot for development of something as complex as life in the form we know it today. The idea presented in the book has full ability to put you into trance.

Book also mentions how people find it hard to believe that as a specie, our main aim is to reproduce and carry it forward to which ‘existence of the fittest’ constantly poses a challenge. The book is pure science and is likely to change the way you have been thinking ever since you started thinking.