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Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins interviews Craig Venter for "The Genius of Charles Darwin", the Channel 4 UK TV program which won British Broadcasting Awards' "Best Documentary Series" of 2008. Craig Venter founde...  
 
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SofaKingAbsent (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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so if we can make our own custom animals... can we also make a perfect mate?
daftrhetoric (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Craig Venter is my favorite person.
rustyrobot (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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no, hold your comments until you get an education.
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liquifiedart (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Sondre7 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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How about : because the rest has nothing to do with the opening.

That being said. Your point is actually discussed in the middle of the interview, with Venter describing the strong opposition he met with his "Shotgun sequencing", and how they later adopted his method, despite their initial 'human' and emotional reaction.
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Scientists do it way more often than most. It does contradict  "human nature" but that's the beauty of science, you can unlearn human nature. I used to never admit I was wrong even when I knew I was, and it was in part due to studying science that I realised sometimes being wrong is a good thing!
TheWALOS (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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He said "some scientists".

If you reject that, then you're basically stating that pride in failure is impossible, at least among scientists.
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this just an amazing movie so interesting it makes me gitty i wanna have my genome studied. but what was that security guards deal, that sort of bothered me but then again he is protecting the new arch of the covenant of science. man i must say it again this is just amazing absolutely enlightening video. thank you once again Richard Dawkins

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