The Greatest Show On Earth

"The Greatest Show On Earth" is Richard Dawkins new book explaining the evidence for evolution. It has been released int he UK today and will shortly be available in the USA on the 22 September 2009.

It is important to note that evolution in NO WAY disproves the existence or otherwise of a god - although it does throw young Earth creationists into a spin.

http://richarddawkins.net/thegreatestshowonearth

I will be buying my copy as soon as possible. Maybe sooner. Scratch that. I just bought it.

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[premed2]

Dawkin's. Now that's one guy that I bet doesn't still have his stuffed teddy bear from childhood! XD

Forgive me, but instead of all this talk about evolution, why don't we simply provide all theists with stuffed teddy bears?

Alright I'll admit it, my Mom through my stuffed dog away when I was older—I've never recovered.

[askegg]

The idea is to throw your teddy bear away. So we just need one and we can pass it around.

[premed2]

A very, very big bear that no one can see, but that everyone believes in? XD

[askegg]

That will certainly save on costs.

[LEV1ATHYN]

Evolution is a lie. I can't believe this man wants to rot are minds like this. They say man and chimp are 98% the same, well a watermellon and a cloud are about 90 someodd percent the same- does that mean a mellon is the same as a cloud?! I think not. Give your head a shake, dawkins

[askegg]

Clouds are not biological organisms, so your analogy is ..... well ..... fucking stupid.

You are certainly one person who could do with an education. Buy the book.

[sgtbigs22]

no we do. Speciation has been observed. Not in the moronic duck to crocodile form that only creationists think possible. But it has been observed and it does happen. We have the fossils, we have the evidence, we have the facts, we win.

[8WholeThing]

I'm looking forward to the book's release in the US.

I was in the 40% (or whatever percent it was thirty-mumble years ago) until I read up on the evidence and saw that creationist authors were liars.

[humanfly78]

Nice one Mr. Dawkins, i'll be snapping this one up.

The 'detective arriving on the crime scene' spin is going to be very interesting.

And I'd love to just reply to every creationist fucktard video with a clip of that last comment. "Evolution is a FACT!" (cheeky grin, and fade to black).

[Sintwar]

That was an awesome commercial!

[drando76]

When he says "radioactive dating" he really means radiometric dating.

[premed2]

:-)

[deefsound]

Without ANY doubt: one of the stupidest comments I have ever had the misfortune of reading.

What the fuck do you even mean or understand by the word "same"?

I usually try to be more pleasant and productive in my comments but this...this is just stupid.

[happysplodie]

Before you speak, educate yourself. You're using the internet, it alone takes away any excuse you have to be this uninformed. Yet for some strange reason, you feel qualified to come here and speak as though you know what's going on. Read. Learn. Bring a legitimate question to the table and we'll talk.

Till then...

[happysplodie]

In lab conditions that synthesize the early earth, we've gotten self replicating proteins. While not full abiogenessis, it's a huge step to go from components, to replication.