The Blind Watchmaker (film)

{{short description|1987 film}}

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{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}

{{Infobox television

| based_on = {{based on|The Blind Watchmaker|Richard Dawkins}}

| writer = Jeremy Taylor

| presenter = Richard Dawkins

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| producer = Jeremy Taylor

| runtime = 48min

| released = {{Start date|1987}}

}}

The Blind Watchmaker is a documentary where Richard Dawkins challenges William Paley's theories on creationism and takes on Paley's descendants.{{cite web|title=Richard Dawkins Makes the Case for Evolution in the 1987 Documentary, The Blind Watchmaker|url=http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/richard-dawkins-makes-the-case-for-evolution-in-the-1987-documentary-the-blind-watchmaker.html}} It was produced in 1987 by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC Horizon series and won the Sci-Tech Award for Best Science Documentary of the year.{{cite web|title=BBC Horizon - The Blind Watchmaker (1987)|url=http://atheistmovies.blogspot.in/2007/08/bbc-horizon-blind-watchmaker-1987.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214175128/http://atheistmovies.blogspot.in/2007/08/bbc-horizon-blind-watchmaker-1987.html|archivedate=14 December 2013|df=dmy-all}} It was based on a book of the same name written by Dawkins in 1986.