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Richard Dawkins is widely known as the man who updated Darwins theory of evolution, he is the author of many intricate works about how humans and animals have come to develop.

«The View from Mount Improbable» is an extract from «Climbing Mount Improbable», written by Richard Dawkins in 1997. In this extract Dawkins talk about eyes and how the different types of eyes have developed, and how some have reached their peak of Mount Improbable.

The analogy with Mount Improbable refers to how different types of eyes have developed in different directions, each of them reaching their own peak. Climbing Mount Improbable represents the evolution of the eyes until they reach their own peak where they are at their best. This analogy is widely used throughout the books 50-some pages, where the bottom of the mountain, where it's the least difficult to climb, represents the early evolution of the eye. Or rather light-detectors, as the early versions of what would eventually become the eye, was only able to distinguish between light or no light. Futile as it may seem, this is an important step up the mountainside of Mount Improbable.

Spontaneous formation by "chance" of a working enzyme is like a hurricane blowing through a junk-yard and spontaneously having the luck to put together a Boeing 747

-- Sir Fred Hoyle

«The View from Mount Improbable» by Richard Dawkins is book number 6 out of 70