Neil Broom's How Blind is the Watchmaker? is directed against the “blatant reductionist ideology” that pervades much popular science writing. Broom has in mind not only such works as Richard Dawkins’ ...

Penguin has released a new edition of this book which was first published in 1986. Dawkins's exposition of evolution, the "blind watchmaker" of the title, has lost none of its relevance or appeal 15 ...

THAT enduring metaphor for the randomness of evolution, a blind watchmaker that works to no pattern or design, is being challenged by two European chemists. They say that the watchmaker may have been ...

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The watchmaker analogy seems timeless—antiquated, yet always in fashion. The most famous version comes from the English clergyman William Paley’s 1802 book Natural Theology. Just as a watch is made up ...