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Richard Dawkins – The Blind Watch Maker
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Richard Dawkins – The Blind Watch Maker
July 20th, 2009
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Rating: 8.7/10 (59 votes cast)

One of the earliest efforts from Richard Dawkins in his identification and attack on the rise of creationism with the rising star of the US fundamentalist christian demographic. In the important documentary, Dawkins shows ways to easily refute some of the more common creationist arguments.

Dawkins begins with the question, “Did everything in Creation fall together by chance or was there an intelligent designer like God?” He then looks at the spreading disaffection with Darwinism and argues that it should not be written off as a worn out declaration of scientific faith.

Whilst this is an aging documentary, it was an important key step in the growing assertion of science as the ONLY paradigm worthy of consideration to a highly developed species.

Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watch Maker, 8.7 out of 10 based on 59 ratings
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    At the end it looks like he’s not wearing any pants. If there were a zeitung in his hands it would be pretty funny. like hes on the loo or something. An overall brilliant documentary anyway. Informative and entertaining, even after so many years.

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  • Garythenotrashcougar

    Terrific documentary, don’t be put off by the age, the ideas are still very relevant. 

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  • Garythenotrashcougar

    Terrific documentary, don’t be put off by the age, the ideas are still very relevant. 

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    Richard Dawkins is god! :o )

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  • Chikkuboy

    He seems to me as an intelligent fool. Even if, through cumulative selection if a being found the better eye, how does he think that information is passed from one generation to other generation? decoded in genes in a sperm of an eyeless male being?? And that information in that genes should be in harmony with information in the genes of an egg from an entirely different(female) being without eye. 
    Can you make a watch using the cumulative selection? Creating all the wheels, arms, springs, nuts and bolts? Human eye itself is more complex than a watch. It is absolutely impossible to make a perfect complex human being without an intelligent designer.

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    • http://www.facebook.com/robin.forward Robin Forward

      Nice crazy rant there mate, well done (fuking nut). Btw evolution without intelligent design is quite possible, considering the amount of evidence that supports it. Compared to intelligent design which is supported by NO evidence and requiring blind faith, you don’t really have a leg to stand on do you.

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    • Centaur2001

      God was the hand maiden of enoulutionary process .

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    • Teddy

      “how does he think that information is passed from one generation to
      other generation? decoded in genes in a sperm of an eyeless male being??”

      Encoded, but generally yes – or the egg of an eyeless female being.

      “And that information in that genes should be in harmony with information
      in the genes of an egg from an entirely different(female) being without
      eye. ”

      The best available gene from each parent will be selected gradually over time, individual children may use either gene and have it work or not for them to a varying degree. Which in turn decides whether those children will pass that gene to their children on or die before they can. Eventually resulting in the fully formed animals (and humans) you see today.

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    • Anonymous

      This argument has it backwards. Of course, looking back from the present to the past, the present state of biological organism’s look irreducibly complex but this is on its head. Say a group of people shuffle a pack of cards and deal them out and record the order that the cards fall. Then I claim that the chances of that particular order of cards falling is infinitismal does this prove that there was intelligent design behind the order of the cards? Of course not, it just demonstrates the fallacy of trying to deduce probability from the present to the past. The chances of the cards falling in that particular order is extraordinarily unlikely and yet the cards did fall that way

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  • Vegas

    There obviously is no god. If there was he would have intelligently designed some better intro music.

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  • Agnostic

    Dawkins is as ignorant as the fundamentalist creastionists he dislikes. I hate the people that follow him blindly without seeing how dogmatic and ignorant he is.

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    • Fred Bazzeeda

      care to point out your claims on this? your statement could have more validity if you can put forth a proper argument based upon facts and research.

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  • Anonymous

    Brilliant.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Deville/1152835743 Aaron Deville

    How simple life must be for you? theres not much point in life if we were just made to pray to a god, and not have to think how we have come to exist,

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