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Darwin and the tree of life.

  • 03-03-2009 01:30PM
    #1
    mickeydevine
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    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1589429273035937450&ei=eQ6tSbCxEJSm2gLjgLm8BQ&q=attenborough+darwin

    Just for anyone, like me, who missed it and cant use Iplayer in the Rep. I guess its the first five minutes which are most relevant to this forum where he discusses the biblical version of creation. It seems to me a very arrogant view by the religious that we are somehow special, as he points out, we have as much in common with apes as a lion has to a tiger. Attenborough would be in my top ten greatest living personalities. He's had me spellbound for decades. KUTGW.:)
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  • #2
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    David Attenborough was disappointingly diplomatic about his beliefs in God on Jonathon Ross last week.

    He more or less just stated that everything we knew about how evolution and how life came to be didn't preclude there being a creator god. Nothing about the contraditions between benevolent gods and burrowing insects in childrens' eyeballs.


  • #3
    Overblood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Overblood


    Yeah that's a pity. He did mention the eye burrowing worm the previous time he was on Jonathan Ross.


  • #4
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    The whole video is an excellent introduction to Darwin's work.
    Take a look 37 minutes in and onwards where it references Creationists (it explains the eye).


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