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Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

A picture tells a thousand words. Excerpt: Now we are not talking about climbing Mount Improbable, we are talking about building a bridge across an enormous chasm, between caterpillar and butterfly. Title: Climbing Mount ImprobableEditor: Richard DawkinsPublisher: Penguin Books 2006 (First published 1996)ISBN: 978-0-14-102617-6Pages: 294. Are humans just an accident by chance. Finding a good analogy, or making a new one that catches on. Or was there purpose and design behind human life? Description: How do species evolve? Posted on 11 April 2009 by Barry Brook. I know my 5th grade daughter (Year 6 in England) felt very privileged to meet Dr. Climbing Mount Improbable is one of many books by Richard Dawkins. Because that is what popular science is all about. How could such an intricate object as the human eye – so complex and so precise – have come about by chance? The author of “The Selfish Gene” fame. Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. A vocal proponent of atheism, he is also the author of many books, such as The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, and The God Delusion. Another superb title from Dawkins. A better myth in this case would be that “advantages persist”, a view that can be found in Dawkins' book Climbing Mount Improbable. Did life emerge from a pre-biotic soup? [Image: Matthew Putney, for the LA Times].