Intelligent Design (2): The Human Eye

Science & Reason on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ScienceReason

Intelligent Design: The Human Eye. Part 2 of the interview with Randolph Nesse from "The Genius of Charles Darwin", presented by Richard Dawkins.

---
Please subscribe to Science & Reason:
• http://www.YouTube.com/Best0fScience
• http://www.YouTube.com/ScienceMagazine
• http://www.YouTube.com/ScienceTV
• http://www.YouTube.com/FFreeThinker
---

"The Genius of Charles Darwin" won "Best TV Documentary Series of 2008" at the British Broadcast Awards.

Randolph Nesse is the co-author of "Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine" (along with George C. Williams).

Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain's leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2007.

Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term "meme". He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book "The Blind Watchmaker", he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics.

Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist, and supporter of the Brights movement. In his 2006 book "The God Delusion", he contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that faith qualifies as a delusion − as a fixed false belief.

• http://www.richarddawkins.net
• http://www.youtube.com/richarddawkinsdotnet
• http://www.atheism-magazine.com/people/Richard_Dawkins.html

If you enjoy the video and would like to support the work of The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, please purchase the program on DVD at http://richarddawkins.net/store/
.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Intelligent
• Design
• ID
• The
• Human
• Eye
• Richard
• Dawkins
• Randolph
• Nesse
• Genius
• of
• Charles
• Darwin
• Why
• We
• Get
• Sick
• New
• Science
• Of
• Darwinian
• Medicine
• Young
• Earth
• Creationism
• Creationist
• Creation
• Creationists
• Atheist
• Experience
• Amazing
• Atheists
• Atheism
• Christianity
• Christians
• Religion
• Evolution
• Theory
• Religious
• Faith
• Belief
• Bible
• Jesus
• Christ
• Satan
• Hell
• Catholic
• Reason
• God
• Delusion
• Secular
• Humanists
• Community
• Freethinker

[RedStarBelgradefan]

@ScottTaylorRealtor so is gravity ;)

[ScottTaylorRealtor]

@UnlimitedChi "Big bang" theory?. What about the conservation of angular momentum? Fragments spin in same direction, everything that spins off goes in same direction, Then why do 2 of our planets and 6 moons spin backwards?

[UnlimitedChi]

@ScottTaylorRealtor Though evolution is very true, it has been demonstrated enough times, most people only deny it because of person beliefs or the misconception about the word theory, though in science it is a totally different meaning. Look it up, and enjoy life :)

[UnlimitedChi]

@ScottTaylorRealtor "theory" often means "imperfect fact"

Though in science In science, we collect facts, or observations, we use laws to describe them, and a theory to explain them. You don't promote a theory to a law by proving it. There are theories of gravity, relativity and loads of other things. It does not mean it is not true, as we all know they are very true and we can show you them physically, but as we can not show you evolution from monkeys in that way, does not mean it is not true

[ScottTaylorRealtor]

You're telling us we have to cover one eye to find a blind spot? News aleart, we have 2 eyes!!! Read this quote from Darwin: "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." I think sometimes people forget that evolution is a "theory"

[NazgulMoonblade]

@ajhrockerboy6 Evolution created humans, humans created God, God created religion and religion created science.

[sirdantees]

This whole video is absolutely absurd and chalked with double talk. They talk about how lousy the eye is, but end up saying it's a remarkably fine instrument. The exercise demonstrated in the beginning of the video is ridiculous. Of course if you put all these absurd handicaps on your eye such as covering one eye and fixating the other eye on the tip of another persons nose, you'll limit it's functionality and use.

[roboticsynapse]

@TheAxis456 Fundamentalism is strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology. Atheism in its loosest terms means without theism. Atheist fundamentalism is an oxymoronic, nonsensical term.