The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding Evolution today.
If natural selection can be said to play the role of a watchmaker in nature, it is a Blind one--working without.
In The Blind Watchmaker , Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic.
In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker.
The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding Evolution today