Richard Dawkins & Chris Williamson on Cultural Christianity, Evolution, and 'The Genetic Book of the Dead'

In this revolutionary, richly illustrated book, Richard Dawkins demonstrates how the body, behavior, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book—an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. Dawkins explains that in the future, a zoologist will be able to decode the ancestral history of any unknown animal, reading its unique 'book of the dead'. This approach is already revealing the remarkable ways animals overcome obstacles, adapt to their environments, and develop similar solutions to life’s problems.

In this book, Richard Dawkins provides a detailed and evidence-based argument for the fact of evolution. He sifts through various layers of scientific evidence, including examples of natural selection, clues from the fossil record, natural clocks, developing embryos, plate tectonics, and molecular genetics. Dawkins aims to expose the absurdities of creationist arguments and present a positive vision of life as a result of evolution by non-random selection. The book is particularly timely, addressing systematic opposition to evolution in schools and the broader public[1][2][5].