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Book: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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  1. Richard Dawkins _ The Greatest Show on Earth:

    Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.
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  2. Richard Dawkins _ The Greatest Show on Earth:

    We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious.
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  3. Richard Dawkins _ The Greatest Show on Earth:

    Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it is possible to go from a single cell to a complicated human body, with its trillions of cells organized into bones and muscles and nerves, a heart that pumps without ceasing for decades, miles and miles of blood vessels and kidney tubules, and a brain capable of thinking and talking and feeling. JBS: But madam, you did it yourself. And it only took you nine months.
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  4. Richard Dawkins _ The Greatest Show on Earth:

    Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact...That didn't have to be true. It is not self-evidently, tautologically, obviously true, and there was a time when most people, even educated people, thought it wasn't. It didn't have to be true, but it is....Evolution is the only game in town, the greatest show on earth.
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  5. Richard Dawkins _ The Greatest Show on Earth:

    Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program."
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  6. Richard Dawkins _ The Greatest Show on Earth:

    Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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