Perfect for Visually impaired, Elderly, Hearing aid (White). He was first catapulted to fame with The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books: The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Unweaving the Rainbow, and an impassioned defence of atheism, The God Delusion. Large Talking Alarm Clock for Blind - Announcing Time, Date and Week of Day. ‘This might just be the most important evolution book since Darwin’ John Gribbin ‘Richard Dawkins has updated evolution … his subject is nothing less than the meaning of life’ The Times ‘Enchantingly witty and persusive … pleasurably intelligible to the scientifically illiterate’ Observer Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and Vice President of the British Humanist Association. Not so, says Richard Dawkins, and in this brilliant and controversial book, the acclaimed evolutionary biologist sets out to demonstrate that the theory of evolution by natural selection – the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Charles Darwin – is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? ‘I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence’ To Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker is nature itself, gradually forming order from the very building-blocks of life: DNA. William Paley’s argued in Natural Theology that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Two things I often say about my clocks: they are all one-of-a-kind because I cannot copy, and the one who built it will never see it.From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. I frequently have heard that I am an inspiration to those who receive my clocks, but the opposite is true. The people inspire me and give me purpose. Many times I have been asked if my other senses have become more acute. No, I don't believe this is true but I have definitely learned to rely and depend on them more to compensate for the vision loss. For instance, I used to identify many domestic woods such as walnut, cherry, oak, sassafras and hickory by sight. Now I detect the odor, hardness, weight and texture by feel and smell to identify the variety of wood. Suddenly, I had to learn to adapt to a new sightless world. I did so by going back to tasks I had previously done and devising a new way of completing them. I design the clocks in my mind and conjure a method in which to build them by feel alone. Click on the clock for a larger view and to see the species of wood. Myers, Florida. I suffered many injuries, the worst of which were multiple skull fractures and massive bleeding from my head. My wife Cathy saved my life that day by curbing the blood loss until the ambulance arrived to transport me to the trauma center. The trauma doctors gave me little chance of surviving, but by their efforts and God's grace, I pulled through. The one lasting effect is total and permanent blindness. These are a sampling of some of the clocks Ive created. The blindness was a result of an accident that I had in March of 2014. I was struck by a car while riding a bicycle through a crosswalk in Ft. My name is Jim Morgan. I am a former teacher, cabinet maker and home builder.
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