Yes, that's also a good book, but not as good as this one. "The Blind Watchmaker" is basically just a defense of Darwinian evolution, targeted at someone who might subscribe to the tenets of 'creationism' (although, interestingly, not someone who subscribes to non-Darwinian evolution: a fact that his detractors are always quick to point out).
If you already happen to believe in evolution, in any sense, then "The Blind Watchmaker" won't really do anything for you (IMHO). All of the fascinating information that he includes about things like the human eye, the bat's sonar, the nature of probability, etc are all reproduced for "The Ancestor's Tale" anyway.
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Date: 2006-07-31 10:03 pm (UTC)If you already happen to believe in evolution, in any sense, then "The Blind Watchmaker" won't really do anything for you (IMHO). All of the fascinating information that he includes about things like the human eye, the bat's sonar, the nature of probability, etc are all reproduced for "The Ancestor's Tale" anyway.