The Blind Watchmaker (film)

The Blind Watchmaker
Based on	The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Written by	Jeremy Taylor
Presented by	Richard Dawkins
Country of origin	UK
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Jeremy Taylor
Running time	48min
Release
Original release	1987 (1987)

The Blind Watchmaker is a documentary where Richard Dawkins challenges William Paley's theories on creationism and takes on Paley's descendants.^[1] It was produced in 1987 by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC Horizon series and won the Sci-Tech Award for Best Science Documentary of the year.^[2] It was based on a book of the same name written by Dawkins in 1986.

References

Richard Dawkins

Bibliography Political views

Books	The Selfish Gene (1976) The Extended Phenotype (1982) The Blind Watchmaker (1986) River Out of Eden (1995) Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) Unweaving the Rainbow (1998) A Devil's Chaplain (2003) The Ancestor's Tale (2004) The God Delusion (2006) The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009) The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (2011) An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist (2013) Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science (2015)

Related works	Growing Up in the Universe (1991) Dawkins vs. Gould (2001) Beyond Belief (2006) Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think (2006) The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008)

Documentaries	Nice Guys Finish First (1987) The Blind Watchmaker (1987) Break the Science Barrier (1996) The Atheism Tapes (2004) The Root of All Evil? (2006) The Enemies of Reason (2007) The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008) Faith School Menace? (2010) Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012) The Unbelievers (2013)

See also	Meme Atheist Bus Campaign Out Campaign Gerin oil Foundation for Reason and Science Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit Lalla Ward Frameshift Weasel program Marian Stamp Dawkins Middle World Go God Go Go God Go XII Courtier's Reply Endless Forms Most Beautiful When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow

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