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Sunday, April 17, 2011

BOOK: The Greatest Show On Earth - Richard Dawkins

Title: The Greatest Show On Earth
Author: Richard Dawkins
Genre: Religion, Science
Publisher: Black Swan 2010 (2009)
Pages: Paperback, 445
Language: English
Rating: 9/10
Summary: Richard Dawkins explains the evidence in favor of the Theory of Evolution

Review
After reading The Devil's Chaplain and especially The God Delusion I'm a fan of Richard Dawkins. His background in biology is impressive and it serves him well in his explanations about evolution, but I mostly love him for his fight against religion and its dubious consequences.

In The Greatest Show On Earth Dawkins offers a whole lot of evidence for the Theory of Evolution. He explains how available fossils prove beyond doubt how life evolved, but he also shows that even if we didn't have fossils, there is enough other scientific material to give us information about the development of life.
The missing link is not an argument against it, no matter how much creationists would like it to be.
A must read for everyone who wants to know more about life's history or those who love to get their points of view affirmed with a healthy dose of cynicism.

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