Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Episode 1 Body & Soul (BBC)
Please Subscribe To The EvolutionDocumentary YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com Broadcast (2009) In the first episode of the three-part series, Andrew Marr explores how Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science. He argues that Darwin’s theory has transformed our understanding of what it means to be human. Over the last 150 years, Darwin’s ideas have challenged the need for a creator, undermined religious authority, and provided new ways of looking at the origins of human morality. Marr’s journey begins following Darwin’s footsteps in Tierra del Fuego at the southernmost tip of South America where Darwin first encountered an ‘uncivilised’ native tribe. This began to raise questions in his mind about the origins of the human race. The answers to these questions would emerge over the next 30 years, culminating in the publication of On The Origin of Species in 1859. Marr then traces the development of Darwin’s idea in the years since then and finds a range of influences that Darwin could never have imagined: from the existential philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to the battlefields of the First World War; from the Freudian psychoanalyst’s couch to the Vatican; and from the genetic logic of kindness to an Islamic creationist’s claim that Darwin is to blame for modern terrorism. Darwin’s dangerous idea is as influential and challenging today as it was 150 years ago. In this three-part series Andrew Marr …
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January 3rd, 2012 at 6:12 am
03:54 What is that person smoking? lol
January 3rd, 2012 at 7:03 am
Darwin’s ideas are not dangerous. It is what humans do by how they interprete it that can be.
January 3rd, 2012 at 8:41 am
@kolearian Worse yet, what’s that monkey smoking?
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:04 am
I learned something significant from this. Ignore anything with BBC in the title.
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:11 am
It’s okay to come from dirt… just not primordial soup.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Yeah evolution and dna does not control people. And people are realy dumb enough to think that.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:48 pm
because Genocide did not exist before Darwin, Oh wait
January 3rd, 2012 at 2:22 pm
@b2e1z pls elaborate…
January 3rd, 2012 at 2:28 pm
They had written on the belts, “Gods with Us” And the catholic church was involed in hitlers shit. Hitler was a creationist. And also morals comes from me, i don’t want to hurt another person, or rip my fellow man or woman off. Becuse I’m not a scumbag, I’m sorry i have morals that have nothing to do with god, and yet i am a good person. I don’t hate believers at all, i just will never live the way they want me to. Screw that shit.
January 3rd, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Dangerous only to Creationists and Televangelists. lol suckers…
January 3rd, 2012 at 2:42 pm
@b2e1z Yeah, you’ll be better off watching Kent Hovind. Twat.
January 3rd, 2012 at 2:45 pm
@AscendingParadigm lol good point
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:24 pm
That turkish guy is a bloody idiot. How can he have no science education, yet have the ego to think he knows how to disprove something that he doesn’t understand. Just like virtually every other creationist, slow and stupid.
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:42 pm
I used to be a creationist, but than i took an arrow to the knee
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Charles Darwin does not have “followers”. Does Newton have followers? Does Einstein have followers? Since no one can deny gravity, is everyone on Earth a Newton follower? The terminology used in this documentary is way off in some places. Until someone can show even the smallest shred of evidence for any god, people who believe in a god, or multiple gods, are delusional.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I suppose the terminology could apply to the main reaction of Darwin’s theory at the time-it must have seemed like a dangerous idea back in the mid-nineteenth century, somewhat challenging the idea of a creator or at least dependence on a creator. It’s not a dangerous idea today, but back then with more people trusting the Bible than things like science…well. Need I say any more?
January 3rd, 2012 at 7:11 pm
But it’s NOT Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. It’s Nature’s Dangerous Idea. Darwin only described it. It is idiotic t think that without Darwin there would be no evolution.
And Harun Yahya is a complete retard. He can’t even distinguish fishing flies from real flies.
January 3rd, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Excellent !!