Christmas Lecture 3: Climbing Mount Improbable
You can’t make a human eye or an eagle’s wing, in a single step – it would be like a giant leap to the top of a sheer cliff (“Mount Improbable”). Christmas Lecture 3 shows how the evolutionary trick is done, inch by inch up the gentle slope on the other side of Mount Improbable.
December 21, 2023
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Episode 21 · December 21, 2023
Christmas Lecture 3: Climbing Mount Improbable
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Christmas Lecture 3: Climbing Mount Improbable
Summary
Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution. It is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection
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