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Episode 2: The Fifth Ape

Aired: August 11, 2008 on Channel 4, Richard Dawkins presents the ultimate guide to Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection which Dawkins considers the most important idea ever to occur to a human mind. In this powerful three-part polemical series, Dawkins explains who Charles Darwin was, how he developed his theory, what it is, and why it matters. He reveals how Darwin changed forever the way we see ourselves, the world and our place in it, and hopes to convince us that "evolution is a fact, backed by undeniable evidence" According to recent polls four out of 10 British people still believe in God as the creator of the universe and everything in it. As a scientist, and Britain's best-known atheist, Dawkins believes that such people simply dont know enough about the evidence for Darwin's entirely natural explanation of life on Earth evolution.

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[ClearMetalVoltar]

quit trollong n00, ur psuedo sciece is irritating

[IQ20000Berta]

What would the genius darwin saying about sperm banks.

[Account2000001]

Lawl, at the end of the video, is he talking about prostitutes?

[MickDinklewinkle]

Those were crime rates per country by capita.

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"but such hopes are Utopian and will never be even partially realised until the laws of inheritance are thoroughly known. Everyone does good service, who aids towards this end. When the principles of breeding and inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man."

Are you misinformed or intellectually dishonest?

[n00ffensebut]

You misquoted Darwin. He said in a letter to his cousin, Galton, "Though I see so much difficulty, the object seems a grand one; and you have pointed out the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race." Thus, Darwin was a eugenicist, who reluctantly had some misgivings about Galtons particular plan.

Here is another full quotation:

"Both sexes ought to refrain from marriage if they are in any marked degree inferior in body or mind;"

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Denying such overwhelming evidence would make any anti-creationist self-righteousness highly hypocritical, and such denial may qualify for schizotypal personality disorder diagnosis based on the DSM-IV criterion of magical thinking.

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16 years of research has firmly proven that MAOA is a violence gene. It is backed up by MRI neuroanatomy, functional MRI, endocrine, hormone treatment, neurotransmitter dose effect, enzyme dose effect, gene expression dose effect, gene knock-out, animal studies, human studies, and multi-gene studies data.

[kiriakufromcyprus]

As I said, the link between the so called "warrior gene" and delinquency is highly questionable. There have been many unsubstantiated links between genes and the character of people. And the mistake the Eugenicists of the early 20th century made was the saw intelligence and social contribution as "inheritable traits". This was before the discovery of DNA. And on those other quotes Darwin also said "yet I fear the utopian plan of procedure in improving the human race".