The Young Charles Darwin DVD clip

A fascinating look at the early life of this scientific giant.

Born in 1809 and raised in Shrewsbury, Charles Darwin spent his youth in the Shropshire countryside. His early interests in natural history were the foundations of his life's work.

This video traces his evolution from childhood at The Mount, through education at Shrewsbury School and Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities to his return in 1836 from the historic voyage of HMS Beagle.

It also Chronicles his later life and work.

It is a colourful account of events and activities in an important young life.

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[saynotodarwinyeah]

@darkfur35 evolution is just science fiction and a very bad fairy tale, but it is always embraced by the ungodly.

[darkfur35]

Evolution is a poor example of science. It is just a bad joke.

[puncheex]

... Oh, and platypuses as well. In fact the echidna is today reckoned to have gone the same way as it's cousin the platypus, only to have later turned around and gone back to being a dry land creature. Such is the pressure of environment. This statement earned him ridicule among the day's biologists, and he dropped it from later editions.

[puncheex]

@gabonicabitis: The quote is (in the first edition of Origins):

"... if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."

Of course, that is exactly what happened, only to a hippo-like animal rather than a bear. It is happening to otters and beavers as we speak.

[puncheex]

@oleyokeyyy: With the dearth of fossil evidence, it was not a bad guess on Darwin's part about the whale. The only part he got wrong is that it wasn't a bear, but more like a hippo. You think it's shameful he should have botched it so badly; I think its truly powerful that he got so close to a remarkable truth.

As for terrorism (invented in the dawn of man) or communism (Marx's manifesto was published eleven years before Origins) ...

[daemonowner]

@puncheex i would say most people don't...

[puncheex]

You simply have no idea about the sophistication of biological systems that can come about by the application of a few simple laws plus some randomness.

[puncheex]

I know nothing of a sort. I have some considerable insight on how exactly it is done. The golden ratio? Look - there are thousands of measurements that can be taken on a human body. I'm not surprised - in fact, I'd be very surprised by the contrary - that some combination of measurements would approximate the ratio, just as happens with the pyramids, flowers, trees, whatever. It's called coincidence. If you take enough measurements, you'll be able to find any number you need.

[oleyokeyyy]

puncheex, if youve really read "the evolution deceit," then you know for sure that the theory of evolution is false. Its not that hard to understand. Even a child of 3 years old wouldnt believe that writing errors on genetic information, mutations, have made systems such as the circulatory, organs like the eye and the heart, a proces like photosynthesis; and that they did that all symmetrically and with golden ratio. So how can a smart man like puncheex believe this?

[puncheex]

Hah! Patronization, is it? I'm telling you I've been there, done that, lived to tell, and stomped on the grave. Enough pretend-science for a lifetime.

Learn something real. You're wasting all that intelligence that nature evolved into you.