Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered… — Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

1986
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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 1.

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