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Richard Dawkins came to town this week, and boy were his fans excited. Dawkins, if you are unfamiliar with his work, is an evolutionary biologist and science writer by turns renowned and reviled for his sustained arguments against creationism and against the existence of God. His latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, takes on the task of explaining, in terms accessible to the layperson, just what makes evolution such a compelling explanation of biological diversity.

WORDS: Richard Dawkins's 2006 tome The God Delusion has sold over 1.5 million copies in its English pressing alone, and his work as an evolutionary biologist has earned him the nickname "Darwin's Rottweiler." His new novel, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, follows in the vein of the rest of his books (exploring the evidence supporting evolution), but it also attempts to refute the criticism he's faced from people who believe in creationism and deny the existence of evolution. Tonight he'll be at the Isabel Bader Theatre to read from The Greatest Show On Earth. The Chapters-Indigo website says the reading is already sold out, so beg, borrow, but don't steal a ticket (because, even if there's no God to punish us, Torontoist doesn't condone stealing). Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles Street West), 7 p.m., $10.