The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
2009 / 426 pgs

A song by Symphonic Metal band Nightwish, called The Greatest Show on Earth from the album Endless Forms Most Beautiful created the desire to read this book. It wasn’t a disappointment.

This is Professor Dawkins need to provide evidence for the Theory of Evolution and how Creationism and/or Intelligent Design is wrong and shouldn’t be taught in schools. I didn’t need convincing on this. The reading was very down to earth, although Professor Dawkins is British and uses words we that required me to have a dictionary standing ready.

The book goes point by point giving anyone the tools to fight the creationist and prove that Darwin is correct in our evolution. There were many points made in the book and if any creationist where to read this book and walk away thinking that Professor Dawkins didn’t prove anything, then there is no changing their minds.

This book is very well written and I would absolutely recommend it for any science nerd.

One of my favorite quotes is the final sentence from Darwin’s first edition of Origin of Species which Professor Dawkins breaks down in the final chapter. “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” – Charles Darwin

Crack open a good book and enjoy the coffee!

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