Richard Dawkins:Lecture1. Waking up in the universe (5 of 7)

who the fuck has proof that bacteria goes back 3.5 thousand million years.....

Geologists.! You dozy fuckwited creationist.

"Here we have the zebra and the rhino... not to scale"

lol. The toy zebra is about 3 times the size of the rhino and smaller than the lion. The insects are the size of the mammals, and some of the animals are the same size of the branches that represent the millions of years they have evolved. I love that he finds it necessary to point out that it's not to scale.

I think he means the actual tree is not to scale, not the models at the ends of the branches.

He meant the branches, which signifiy how close they're related to each other.

A hell of a lot more of them would be starving now without. And PLEASE, I've spent plenty of time in the 3rd world and have seen more poverty in a week than most Americans will ever see in their lives so don't talk down to me as if you have some special knowledge of the world's suffering. If you want to see starvation visit the USSR at the height of its wonderful socialist system.

PS my views on economics are based on BOOKS written by many different ECONOMISTS over many different time periods.

1.Then you really are sucked in by the propaganda. If the former USSR were truely communist then there would have been no poverty and every one would have lived high quality life styles. The USSR was a totalitarian regime not a communist way of life. However we need to ask why revolutions occur, we need to understand the the events that lead up to revolution. Revolution occur when millions of people beome dissaffeted. as with the French revolutions.

2 in the 1930s we had the great depression millions throughout Europe and America were living in the most disgraceful poverty. This eventually lead to war with the rise of Hitler. The end of the war saw the development of the eastern block countries where an attempt to start a new social order against the exploitation of the capitalist system. Even present day capitalism is now failing i.e. the credit crunch. people are having their houses repossessed etc. Should they all live on the street?

If capitalism was such a brilliant system then we would not have had the WWII. Capitalism had made millions of peoples lives misery. What do you think these people should have done? Starve! Should people have just watched their children starve and hope that thing would get better. There was no shortage of food or materials back in the 30s but millions suffered. The same applies now. We will see more unrest and a rise a crime as the credit crunch bites even deeper, youmight become a victim of it