The Blind Watchmaker

Name: The Blind Watchmaker
Author: রিচার্ড ডকিন্স

Summary of the Book
This book presents Dawkins’ viewpoints on the philosophical concept of a divine creator. He calls out the watchmaker analogy popularized by William Paley in his book Natural Theology. If the complexity of life can be compared to that of an intricately designed watch, and if this design could be credited to some unseen watchmaker, then Dawkins begins to wonder about a simple question. If all life has been made by one being, with one design in tow, then there is a problem. A seemingly simple creation such as the eye, despite functioning well enough for all creatures, exists simultaneously in differently efficient forms. Some creatures see better in the dark, some see better in the water. Some creatures can withstand opening their eyes in the face of wind, while others experience pain. If there is a watchmaker, Dawkins says, this one example should be enough to question whether he himself is blind. And if there was one, why isn’t he already complex? Because to make so many wondrous things, he must already be wondrous. So if the design already existed, why didn’t he copy it? With these and other questions, Dawkins presents a comparison between Natural Selection and Intelligent Design.

About Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is an English evolutionary biologist, ethologist and writer. He is well known for his books: The God Delusion, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Selfish Gene and The Extended Genotype.
He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, where he continued to complete his M.A. and D.Phil.

রিচার্ড ডকিন্স

Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. With his book The Extended Phenotype (1982), he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

Dawkins is known as an outspoken atheist. In interviews, he has called himself an agnostic about many matters of religious faith, instead endorsing reason. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In The Blind Watchmaker (1986), he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker, in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any designer. In The God Delusion(2006), Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion.

Dawkins has been awarded many prestigious academic and writing awards, and he makes regular television, radio, and Internet appearances, predominantly discussing his books, his atheism, and his ideas and opinions as a public intellectual.

Title : The Blind Watchmaker
Author : রিচার্ড ডকিন্স
Country : Abroad
Language : English
Number of Pages : 340
ISBN : 9780141026169