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El Capellan del Diablo Reflexiones Sobre la Esperanza, la Mentira, la Ciencia y el Amor
Que libro escribiria un capellan del diablo sobre el trabajo torpe, derrochador, primitivo y horriblemente cruel de la naturaleza?', se preguntaba Darwin en 1856. Conocer los procesos naturales y las conductas de seres vivos puede ponernos la piel de gallina o dejarnos maravillados. Richard Dawkins nos invita a mirar con los ojos abiertos y sin hipocresia lo peor y mas perfecto que la naturaleza produce y recuerda que los limites entre aquello que podemos soportar y lo que rechazamos los ponemos nosotros. Comenta los aspectos mas controvertidos de los descubrimientos cientificos recientes: embriologia, clonacion o las manipulaciones geneticas de vegetales comestibles, para mostrar que muchas condenas se deben a la falta de conocimiento y valentia de aceptar la semejanza de nuevos hechos con fenomenos familiares. No se limita a explicar nuevos hallazgos, sino que conecta temas dispares en funcion de cierta ensenanza
PhilosophyScienceEssays
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERGedisa
LENGTH348
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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book *The Selfish Gene*, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the concept, presented in his book *The Extended Phenotype*, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is well known for his candid criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book *The Blind Watchmaker*, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
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El Capellan del Diablo Reflexiones Sobre la Esperanza, la Mentira, la Ciencia y el Amor
Que libro escribiria un capellan del diablo sobre el trabajo torpe, derrochador, primitivo y horriblemente cruel de la naturaleza?', se preguntaba Darwin en 1856. Conocer los procesos naturales y las conductas de seres vivos puede ponernos la piel de gallina o dejarnos maravillados. Richard Dawkins nos invita a mirar con los ojos abiertos y sin hipocresia lo peor y mas perfecto que la naturaleza produce y recuerda que los limites entre aquello que podemos soportar y lo que rechazamos los ponemos nosotros. Comenta los aspectos mas controvertidos de los descubrimientos cientificos recientes: embriologia, clonacion o las manipulaciones geneticas de vegetales comestibles, para mostrar que muchas condenas se deben a la falta de conocimiento y valentia de aceptar la semejanza de nuevos hechos con fenomenos familiares. No se limita a explicar nuevos hallazgos, sino que conecta temas dispares en funcion de cierta ensenanza
PhilosophyScienceEssays
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERGedisa
LENGTH348
LANGUAGEES
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book *The Selfish Gene*, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the concept, presented in his book *The Extended Phenotype*, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is well known for his candid criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book *The Blind Watchmaker*, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
