David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes

http://www.ted.com Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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[Real4Bas]

This guy is my lecturer at uni

[Trevor Stanhope]

but claiming to be either makes you irritating.

[khindustries02]

obviously the 157 people who disliked this are useless religious people....

[psimon12345]

In the beginning, God...



[Conor Baxter]

David Hay said it was good to annoy people. He called himself a Christian Buddha as people always want people to conform to one thing. What a stupid world that would be.

[Johnnt Santiago]

ok where our soul s came from jerk!!!!

[JAKE W JONES]

Thanks for the information Vladimir. So what is the bottom line? Do you believe everything came from a "nothing" so small that you can't even imagine it? lol... or Do you believe that there always had to be something? Let's imagine that some day humans can create something complex from nothing in a lab, would that not still prove that there had to be an intelligent hand? I am open to anything. My only problem is with the Big Bang being spoke of or taught as if it is a known fact.

[Vladimir Harkonnen]

In common language - the word THEORY refers to a guess or a hunch - but this is not what is meant in the language of cosmology. It is best not to equivocate the two. There is an extensive literature on the subject of distinguishing between 'best guesses' and scientific THEORIES.

[JAKE W JONES]

He lost me at the Big Bang when he made something (and a lot of it) out of nothing, and didn't pause for one moment to tell anyone that what he is telling you is a THEORY and BEST GUESS. I appreciate his presentation. I just wish he wouldn't act as if the Big Bang is a fact when it isn't.

[Mike Moran]

Ray Dalio would be great for these Ted Talks except he is an abhorrent speaker.