The Greatest Show on Earth | Richard Dawkins

This New York Times bestseller is a fierce counterattack against proponents of “Intelligent Design.” ID Creationism is being taught in schools and 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.

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.