BBC Horizon – The Blind Watchmaker



BBC Horizon – The Blind Watchmaker








BBC Horizon – The Blind Watchmaker (1987)
English | Xvid | 640×352 | 650 MB | Duration: 48min

Winner of Sci-Tech Prize for the best science programme of 1987.

Another Richard Dawkins presentation based on one of his books (which won the Royal Society of Literature Award). In the programme, he refutes the claims of creationists that Darwinism cannot be credible because blind chance alone would not produce the complexity of organisms as they exist. “The Blind Watchmaker” creationist argument was coined by Rev. William Paley (1743-1805) 50 years before Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Dawkins demonstrates how the eye could have evolved in stages, each simple and a result of random variation, but connected by a natural selection of those organisms which become more successful. In the early stages even with an incomplete eye, the benefit of even partial vision discriminating only between light and dark would be more useful than no vision. The structure of the surface of the “new” (in 1987) optical storage disc is related to the structure of the eye of the moth. A computer program produces generations of biomorphs using incremental random variation.








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