![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than responding to their critiques, Dawkins sets up countless straw man arguments and focuses solely on young-earth creationists (and not even the leaders among them!). They have raised substantive questions for the mechanism of Darwinian evolution. from Cambridge), and William Dembski (double Ph.D. ![]() He ignores the work of Jonathan Wells (Ph.D. With this background information in mind, it’s difficult to express how disappointed I was at the demeaning rhetoric and lack of substance that characterizes The Greatest Show on Earth.įirst off, Dawkins utterly refuses to engage with any serious evolution skeptics. As soon as a copy of his book arrived at my doorstep, I enthusiastically opened the box and jumped right into the book, hoping to be challenged to take another hard look at the evidence for evolution. With The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, River Out of Eden, and many more, Dawkins has established himself as one of the foremost contemporary defenders of Darwinian evolution. This is why I eagerly anticipated the release of The Greatest Show on Earth, by Richard Dawkins. I would much rather read a difficult book that makes me think deeply about my convictions than one that provokes little thought. ![]()
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