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Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins’s metaphor for nonintelligent, purposeless natural selection. According to the metaphor, the appearance in living things of artifactual features is due not to an actual watchmaker but to a blind watchmaker controlled purely by blind, purposeless material processes. The blind watchmaker hypothesis employs the notion of apparent design, whereby a thing may seem to have been actually designed by a watchmaker, when in fact it was not.

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