Ep4: The Ultraviolet Garden - Growing Up in the Universe - Richard Dawkins

bary1234 Says:

Jan 6, 2012 - Nonsense. You know Spiderman is not real. Are you now devoid of emotion, gut feeling and intuition? Did you loose your humanity when you understood Spiderman is not real?Are you now bleak?

RyanTheChristian Says:

Jan 6, 2012 - Well, you seem to be getting a little hot so I'll come back later :)

bary1234 Says:

Jan 6, 2012 - Line in the water means its just arbitruary, pulled from the hat. As if one birthday would suddenly make a human being so different than he was yesterday.And yeah, its whole another debate and it wont ever destroy this planet so lets rather chew on the superstition :)

jbatet1 Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think there are two areas of confusion here. The first is, there are two types of 'desire'. Animals might desire to have offspring, but they don't necessarily desire that their distant descendents are 7 feet tall or have large thumbs for texting. Sexual desire makes evolution possible, but it doesn't drive it, what drives it is nature killing off the individuals that are not suited to their environment.

jbatet1 Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - ...and secondly, there is the difference between 'desire' as a rational thought process that only really happens in higher animals, and 'desire' meaning 'I do this because I'm made be genes that instruct me to do it'. plants are not conscious. But they do reproduce sexually (that's what pollen is for) and they are made by genes. Their offspring will vary, and nature will select. No need for the plants to think about it, and they don't "want" to evolve.

jbatet1 Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - ...as an aside: what the selfish gene suggests is that most creatures would actually prefer perfect clones of themselves, rather than evolution, because that would involve passing on a perfect replica of their genes. So the idea that any plant or animal actively wants to evolve is wrong. There are interesting studies on cabbage white moths before, during and after the industrial revolution that illustrate the 'direction' point (white, black, then white again)

RyanTheChristian Says:

Jan 7, 2012 - I think I grasp what you're saying, thanks. You're saying I mustn't mistake desire for natural selection? Okay that makes sense but it doesn't really help me understand how the flower without a bee-shaped attractor starts to grow one in the very first place. You're probably thinking "natural, gradual stages over many years". But there must have been a flower with that first "idea". Did it accidentally attract a bee with a bruised petal, say?So its offspring immitated that? Why?

huwrj Says:

Feb 12, 2012 - Science is the best thing humanity's ever done.

jodiebug1 Says:

Feb 12, 2012 - What a sweet little bat!

PERITTY1 Says:

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Guardian9191 Says:

Feb 16, 2012 - Thats bloody Douglas Adams over there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Holy shit, first time I've seen a video of him. Such a great partnership these two makes

meeynee24 Says:

Mar 4, 2012 - this guy uses designed things to argue for evolution, irrational.clearly a moron.

heroic33 Says:

Mar 9, 2012 - all hail the Science! all hail the Science!

pg4v377 Says:

Mar 22, 2012 - Just sneakin in here to say that atheists don't claim to know how the universe works, but we're not going to sit on the fence to side with the eventual winner like agnostics. We hold that all religious thought has been manufactured, intentionally or otherwise, by man, and that believing in something w/o proof is not noble, but complacent. We say that if something doesn't make logical sense, it isn't true. That is noble, only claiming to know what we actually know.

TheVarsh86 Says:

Apr 3, 2012 - Very well said mate :)

TheVarsh86 Says:

Apr 3, 2012 - 17:14 90s video game nostalgia!

hunarahmad Says:

Apr 8, 2012 - thank you very much indeed!

aceytam Says:

Apr 9, 2012 - 23 christians ran across this video.

aceytam Says:

Apr 9, 2012 - Agnostics DON'T believe in religion, and DON'T sit on the fence. It's based on the concept that anything, however improbable, may be possible.Eg. Flying spaghetti monsters may be improbable, but not impossible, although highly unlikely. Just as so much of science (quantum non-locality, additional dimensions, existence of dark energy/matter etc), however unlikely they would have seemed 20 years ago, are today accepted phenomenon.Agnosticism is the scientifically correct version of atheism.

pg4v377 Says:

Apr 10, 2012 - A phenomenon can be observed, but can't be explained, no religious belief has actually happened.

AbdulShaafee Says:

Apr 29, 2012 - [ And say {to these polytheists and pagans etc.}: "All the praises and thanks be to Allaah. He will show you His aayaat {signs, in yourselves, and in the universe or punishments, etc.}, and you shall recognise them. And your Lord is not unaware of what you do."] Soorat An Naml {27:93}

hjf3022 Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - He got a school kid to have sex with a flower.

skiball100points Says:

May 20, 2012 - Wouldn't it be awesome if atheists and religious people didn't crash the comments for every youtube video remotely related to science?

Globtroting Says:

May 22, 2012 - How good is RD at explaining science, I know this is for Children primarily but it seems to me to be quite complex concepts explained so very clearly.