Author: Richard Dawkins
Translator: Myeong-nam Kim
Publisher: Gimmyoungsa
Hardcover | 625 pages
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About This Book
In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God
had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a
Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on
earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time.
In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook
society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory
of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an
incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half
later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable
scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to
question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work The God
Delusion takes them to task.
The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of
"Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while
exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts
through rich layers of scientific evidence: 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. Combining these elements and many more, he makes 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."
The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time: systematic
opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In
American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts
are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins
wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded
passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative
argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a
master's vision of life, in all its splendor.
About the Author
Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and
author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and, until recently, held
the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford
University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant
international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of
modern evolutionary biology. He is also the author of The Blind
Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the
Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, and most recently, The
God Delusion.
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