The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution | Paperback

There are many popularisers of science who are fairly good or even brilliant. Some of those brilliant writers have a charisma which grabs the readers attention from the very first lines and never lets go. Yet Sir Dawkins is not just an ordinary member of this exclusive club. He himself is a great scientist with well established unquestionable reputation. With this book we have a lucky opportunity of learning about evolution from if not the best expert on it then the best narrator of it. His arguments are unbeatable, his logic is undisturbed, and his vision is not obscured by prejudices. Being quite recent, this book contains novel facts obtained in the field of molecular biology, which pour more light on the shining diamond of Darwins genius and the beauty of the theory of evolution. Dawkins highly critical and intolerant stance on creationists is rather understandable: imagine yourself an electrician who is told that electricity does not exist, or a diver who has to defend the fact that water is wet.