The Blind Watch has a twofold purpose. Firstly it aims to expose some of the salient
inadequacies and fallacies of modern atheism. Secondly and more fundamentally it is intended
to expand our thinking about nature in general and about the meaning of nature for a Christian
understanding of human beings. For systematic reasons the book focuses on Richard Dawkins' The
Blind Watchmaker which has become a classic on modern atheism. In contrast to Dawkins' work
the present book describes the watch i.e. the atheistic scientist not the watchmaker as
blind insofar as the scientist calculates everything but sees very little. By confronting the
atheism of Dawkins with the philosophical (Heraclitus and the Stoics) and the theological (the
Apostle Paul and Augustine) traditions the book develops a fundamental understanding of nature
as nature that leads to a definition of life quite different from that of the evolutionary
biologists.
