![]() ![]() Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design", explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument". Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later.Įvolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. ![]() In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. ![]()
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