The Blind Watchmaker

We just read The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins in book club this week. Well, actually we had all month to read it and then we discussed it last night at our January meeting.
I can't say it was my favorite evolution  book ever, but it had some really good points, especially for "beginners" who don't have a lot of background in evolutionary biology. The thing that made it a little less than great for me was that it was so thorough. Normally that's a good thing (and for those with no previous knowledge on the subject it is a good thing) but for me he got very...long winded in parts and so I found it to be a less than easy read.
But I do recommend it for anyone who has ever wondered how evolutionists explain the complexity of the human eye, that is so often cited by Creationists as proof that god must exist. It's basically a discussion of the difference between single step (which is what most Creationists believe evolution to be based on) and cumulative selection, which is the way it actually works.
There is also a really interesting chapter on how bats use sonar to see. It turns out it is a pretty complicated process on account of the fact that the noise they make is so loud (to them) that it would burst their ear drums so they have developed a way to close their ears when they chirp, and then open them quickly to pick up the returning sound. They can do this up to 100 times per second. There is a bunch more to it, but that was the gist of it. Super cool.
So if you are interested, REALLY interested in understanding why you don't need to invoke the supernatural to to create the human eye, or explain life on earth, than I highly recommend this book. He doesn't cut any corners, and explains pretty much everything right down to the last atom. I found a free pdf of the book online and you can too if you do a search for The Blind Watchmaker pdf in Google.