''The Blind Watchmaker'' is a documentary where
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An ath ...
challenges
William Paley's theories on
creationism
Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The ''Concise Oxford Dictionary'' says that creationism is 't ...
and takes on Paley's descendants. It was produced in 1987 by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for
BBC Horizon
''Horizon'' is an ongoing and long-running British documentary film, documentary television series on BBC Two that covers science and philosophy.
History
The programme was first broadcast on 2 May 1964 with "The World of Buckminster Fuller" whic ...
series and won the Sci-Tech Award for Best Science Documentary of the year.
It was based on a
book of the same name written by Dawkins in 1986.
References
1987 films
British documentary films
Genetics in the United Kingdom
Horizon (British TV series)
Films based on non-fiction books
Works about genetics
Documentary television shows about evolution
1980s British films
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