Let's Talk About Evolution

This video was produced to allow scientists to explain, in their own words, the importance of evolution to science -- and the related importance of teaching evolution in schools. Our goal is to convey the fact that evolution is an amazing, uplifting discovery that has served as the genesis of countless advances in many fields of science. We also wanted to highlight female role models in the science community.

For information on what you can do to support evolution in education, please visit these sites. These organizations are not associated with this video in any way, but we think they do great work: National Center For Science Education: http://ncse.com/ and American Association For The Advancement Of Science: http://www.aaas.org/.

We encourage people to film their own videos and contribute to the conversation. Keep it positive: focus on the importance and wonder of evolution, and not on divisive name-calling.

Many thanks to all of the scientists who participated in this video. Their individual video submissions are available in their entirety at [insert YouTube channel URL here, assuming we can load those easily].

This video was produced by: Matt Shipman, David Wescott, Jamie Vernon, Kevin Zelnio and Andrea Kuszewski.

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[macmarty2025]

Excellent video

[633495]

Are you sure you've truly read my post and have attempted to respond to its core message?

Your post rambles about with, 'religion this,' and, 'religion that,'

but you haven't even come close to the in-the-classroom-what-do-we-ha­ve-time-to-cover arguments I'm making.

You've made a 'generic post' to no one, but you clearly haven't replied to me when you clicked on the, 'reply' button.

You truly disappoint.

[metalmilitia1977]

Biology is based on evolution. It's not taught to dissuade people from their religion. Religion is the one that took a stance against it because it has proven wrong many of the doctrines it has tried to make people believe thru the ages. If you don't learn how evolution works, you'll never truly understand biology. If you take religion as it is and believe it literal truth, then you'll never learn anything. Its philosophies are based on the ignorance of the age it was written in. God of the gaps

[METALLICARULES11]

In my school only atheists learn about evolution but both non religious AND religious learning it? seriously! What the fuck happened to the right to practise your own religious beliefs

[633495]

Why even bother students with evolution within a biology curriculum?

In high school, teach students about the way in which photosynthesis works,

don't waste their time on speculating about the biochemical origins of photosynthesis.

Teach them how the Krebs cycle works.

Don't waste their time speculating on how it may have spontaneously arisen.

Photosynthesis and the Krebs cycle are biological processes worthy of understanding as they are.

Evolution doesn't add anything extra of value.

[Domination584]

Well 97% of scientists agree that the evidence for evolution makes perfect sense, so I guess you're saying that you're smarter than pretty much every scientist. That's a pretty bold claim. If you really are more intelligent than just about every scientist, you ought to try and publish some of your ideas about why evolution makes no sense. You could win a Nobel prize for debunking one of the two central theories of biology.

[Powertuber1000]

Why are they only showing women?

What is their agenda?