Genius of Britain - Richard Dawkins (1/4)

Richard Dawkins looks at the incredible discoveries of the last 50 years and reveals where some of the greatest minds of our time think we are heading.

Olivia Judson reveals the controversial true story of how Rosalind Franklin's work in crystallography helped Watson and Crick to discover the double-helix structure of DNA, and the wealth of knowledge now gathered about the human genetic blueprint as a result.

Jim Al-Khalili charts the career of astronomer Fred Hoyle, who helped to popularise science, worked out that we are all made of star-dust and, ironically, coined the term 'Big Bang' for a theory he rejected.

James Dyson explores a revolutionary new discovery - carbon nanotubes - which, as well as being the toughest material known to man and 50,000 times thinner than a human hair, offer potential applications from cheap and super-efficient solar power to building a 'space elevator'.

To end this documentary, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins ask each other the questions they really want answered: Is there life on other planets? Why are you so obsessed with God?

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[MrBrooksGrant]

3:06 Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking in the same room! Intelligence Orgasm :D

[joestfrancois]

@FindingTruthToday

TROLL ALERT!! TROLL ALERT!! FINDINGTRUTHTODAY IS A TROLL!!

Victor, your lying lies must not stand! No one has seen the things done that your superstition claims either. You can't censor or block on this channel, go back to your bronze age channel. Nothing in science confirms your bible, you knowingly repeat this lie.

Hey, what is that sound? Is it Gabriel sounding his horn? Oh, no, it's Victor playing his kazoo!! TOOT TOOT!!

[Laprevraven]

3:13 "Do you think there will be scientific genius in a world of super computers?" .....Creepy face!

[SuperAsi666]

I love Britain!

[kougermasterz]

Britain has forgotten scientific contributions?! Ha! The most underrated country in terms of scientific accomplishment is Germany.

[FindingTruthToday]

@marivwae Just because someone says that they are a Christian it doesn’t mean that they are following Christ Jesus’ teachings. God teaches us in the Bible to stay away from religion because religion separates us from Him.

The only “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this : to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.” James 1:27

[marivwae]

@FindingTruthToday yes, and it would take a lot more than 5000 years to develop these differences. 3000 years actually, because there were already black african slaves in egypt.

If you conceive a child with a woman of the same origin, and you would send your son/daughter away to China, but they also only have babies from people with the same origin, it would take a lot more than 3000 years before their children got slanted eyes.

[marivwae]

@FindingTruthToday ow, you mean like bashing on gay people, like you guys tend to do. Is that the kind of discrimination we're talking about here? Because I know I don't discriminate them. Just like I don't discriminate the African people, nor any other race. Your missionairs in Congo in the early 20th century, now they most definitely were pretty racist. Just like your good friend Adolph Hitler, who seemed to share the same religion with you.

[FindingTruthToday]

@marivwae did you not read them? you asked for the information I have about inbreeding.