Climbing mountain improbable - Book Report/Review Example

For instance, the author uses the scenario of Mt Rushmore as an example where images of several former US presidents can be seen (p.5). According to the author, these resemblances are purely coincidental, and Dawkins uses this case to invalidate the creation theory. Further, Richard Dawkins continues to explain the people holding the view on creation, and the perceptions toward nature. Using the term designoid, the writer states that some objects in this world seem so much designed that it is always impossible to have a different view (Dawkins, p.14). Consequently, the people who view them with this conviction firmly, but wrongly, view these objects as designed or, in this case, created.

Dawkins asserts that while these people seem right in believing the objects’ designing was never coincidental, it is erroneous to attribute the designing to anything. Actually, Dawkins agrees that the objects’ design is not accidental; nonetheless, the process is random contrary to the illusion held on by many. Interestingly, the author’s approach to the topic of creation is not necessarily based on the religious books, but by using insects in the argument especially concerning the reasons people hold certain beliefs.

Using a termite and a beetle on the first explanation, Dawkins (p.18) creatively and convincingly explains that sometimes a termite resembles a termite. As a result, it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between the two unless one analyses them closely. The remaining part of chapter one uses other animals including fish to prove that just because an animal looks perfectly designed, does not mean someone was responsible for the same. Chapter two of the book continues with the use of insects with the major one here being a spider.

The author goes into details on how a spider weaves its web, the loopholes it seeks to avoid in the web and the probability of the prey leaving the web even after entanglement