The Blind Watchmaker

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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 11.

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Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 1.

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It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Richard Dawkins

On natural selection.

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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 1.

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