The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (A Brief History of the Natural World)

Richard Dawkins Transformed Our View Of God In His Blockbuster, The God Delusion, Which Sold More Than 2 Million Copies In English Alone. He Revolutionized The Way We See Natural Selection In The Seminal Bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, He Launches A Fierce Counterattack Against Proponents Of Intelligent Design In His New York Times Bestseller, The Greatest Show On Earth.Intelligent Design Is Being Taught In Our Schools; Educators Are Being Asked To Teach The Controversy Behind Evolutionary Theory. There Is No Controversy. 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&;To Make 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. His Unjaded Passion For The Natural World Turns What Might Have Been A Negative Argument, Exposing The Absurdities Of The Creationist Position, Into A Positive Offering To The Reader: Nothing Less Than A Master&;S Vision Of Life, In All Its Splendor.