Charles Darwin's Brave New World: A Dangerous Idea

Darwin's Brave New World.
Featuring a superb cast and commentators including David Suzuki, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond and Iain McCalman, this is the story of how four young voyagers changed our world forever. The epic adventures of Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace would revolutionise science, turn society on its head and give birth to an extraordinary theory.

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Science & Technology

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• Science & Technology
• charles darwin
• natural selection
• brave new world
• evolution theory
• David Suzuki
• Richar

[imroy264]

Gravity? Just a theory. Atoms? Just a theory. Electricity? Just a theory. Electromagnetic radiation? Just a theory. Wave-particle duality of light? Just a theory. Fibre optics? Just a theory. Germs? Just a theory. Cells? Just a theory. Genetics? Just a theory. Plate tectonics? Just a theory. Learn what the word "theory" means in a scientific context. You likely make indirect use of many scientific theories every single day.

[narfanoid]

Dropping a bowling ball on your foot doesn't prove the existence of gravity, but it sure does make a person look stupid when they try to say there is no such thing as gravity. Filling the world's museums and universities with clear evidence of evolution in the past and the present doesn't prove evolutionary theory, but it sure does make a person look stupid when they say the universe was created by a god.

[gulbirk]

What I find most anoying is when they refuse to understand the time perspective. When they assume that it happens in ONE generation.

When they view evolution as if it was something going on in your body.

[kutkinderen]

@imroy264 what an annoying word ''theory'' the facts,estimations,analyses,obs­ervation hmmmm we are still human and it's natural for ous to make mistakes. It should be placed in a broader context don't you think ?

[TheDarkLordLucifer]

Let creationists speak and show the world just how stupid they really are.

[Thirshaatheart]

@imroy264 THANK YOU!

[synsei1]

@narfanoid I'm totally with you, actually I almost made the same comment with smurfs and dragons for another video.

[narfanoid]

@synsei1

I don't recall having said that there is proof that there is no god. But just because you can't prove the non-existence of something is no good reason to choose to believe it. I can't prove there are not pixies living under my house, but you don't see me coming up with reasons I should choose to believe there are. In short, if there is no real-world evidence to support any claim, why believe it?

[synsei1]

@narfanoid

It doesn't disprove god but at least it should make people question the story of Adam and Eve and other myths. Great coment though.

[narfanoid]

Well, yes, and no... we know gravity works, and we know that we can calculate what will happen based on what we have learned. BUT, we don't know HOW it works. We only know that when we drop things they fall at certain rates, and they fall predictably toward the center of the Earth. This allows us to use gravity in formulaic ways but it does not tell us what the force is behind it.

[mutzilnosoundl]

@narfanoid Yeah. I just keep thinking it's so obvious but....