The Greatest Show on Earth

The Evidence for Evolution

De: Richard Dawkins

Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of 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.©2009 Richard Dawkins; (P)2009 Simon & Schuster

Brilliant evidence

This particular Dawkins book does not address the existence of a god. The purpose, instead, is to lay out basic evidence for the truth of evolution. The performance is very good; It resembles a discussion rather than a reading. The evidence is laid out clearly and the book has a nice flow.

Fascinating book

I love this book. great information. the only annoying part is with Dawkins and Ward switching reading.

Brilliant book

A brilliant, Consistently fascinating book with great narration by the author and Lailla Ward. Highly recommended.

great book

Fantastic book. The content was dense and well described but way too complex for my little brain to comprehend. Will need to have multiple re-listens to understand. Richard Dawkins books are my favorite performed books. It helps to have Lalla Ward and him trade off especially when it gets in to the more complex ideas. Would recommend to anyone who is interested in science or evolution.

Stand up for Science

the book is great, the ideas are well thought out and presented simply in layman's terms. A great book for jumping into evolution.

The Greatest Book on Earth

This book is extremely fascinating and intriguing! Richard Dawkins does a superb job laying out and explaining thoroughly each example of evidence for evolution and why it is what it is. A FACT! I listened to this book twice and recommended that my sister reads it as well. If I didn't have my Great Courses lectures to tend to, I would listen to it again and indeed probably will in the future.

So much excellent information

Chapter after chapter of wonderful information and evidence are presented.
I like the way the book is organized and I enjoyed the little digs against the creationists in there. I think Dawkins can't help himself! It is amazing that 40% of Americans STILL do not accept the science. They don't read. They don't listen. Ignorance is rampant!! Poor America!

It answers all of life’s questions

It is to bad that we are still fighting a belief system you can trace back to ancient Egyptians. The last two hundred years of human intellectual advancement are denied by over half of humanity.

Excellent must read

An excellent book the outlines evolution and It’s impact on our lives. I take solace that we are all interconnected and the better we understand that the better we position the next generations to grow.

Brilliant, accessible, and well worth your time!

Richard Dawkins has gone above and beyond the clever writing in books past. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH is a book driven by logical, evidence-based ideas/laws/theorum/commentary, delivered in Dawkin's signature combination of wit and exquisitely turned phrases. I'm an MSW *masters in social work/psychoanalysis*, and this book was accessible, and a joy to listen to it unfold, gracefully. The book's pace and depth of topic are perfectly graded such that anyone with a sincere thirst for knowledge, and access to the net, could thoroughly enjoy themselves. I thought I understood the nuts and bolts of evolution, but I was wrong. My "up North" Michigan educators had not bothered to illuminate the subject of evolution, and consequently, I now realize the depth/breadth and degree of ignorance I'd been suffering all my 32 years, until completing this book.