"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Monday, January 3, 2011
In this video that compares artificial selection to natural selection, Carl Sagan gets to use his favorite word "billions", except ...
... except he's talking about the number of years natural selection has been working, instead of the number of stars in a galaxy.
LadyAtheist, thanks for watching it. I remember Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series and his billions and billions of stars. Best science on TV ever, best music ever.
Excellent video! Thanks for posting it :-D
ReplyDeleteLadyAtheist, thanks for watching it. I remember Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series and his billions and billions of stars. Best science on TV ever, best music ever.
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