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became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century

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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design Nature_Gift_Guide became the single bestselling bookRichard Dawkinss classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution. The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker. In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and