Jacques Lucien Monod (1910-1971) - French scientist, biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine and physiology, philosopher and musician, active participant in the French Resistance during the Second World War. Jacques Monod wrote many scientific articles and only one a book that, however, immediately attracted attention and became the subject of heated discussions among creationists and Darwinists. Is man alone in the Universe? How and why have countless millennia of evolution made us, homo sapiens, what we are? And is there any meaning at all in the emergence of life? Quite consistent in his Darwinism, Monod, however, sharply departs from Darwin’s theory in everything that concerns the non-randomness of transmitted characters, and presents evolution as a kind of game of biological roulette. What place in this game is assigned to a person, and is he free in his choice? The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.