The Genius of Charles Darwin 3CD (2008) Inglés srt subtítulos

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This series is about perhaps
the most powerful idea

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ever to occur to a human mind.

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The idea is evolution
by natural selection.

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And the genius who thought
of it was Charles Darwin.

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I'm a biologist and Darwin
has been an inspiration to me

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throughout my whole career.

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His masterpiece, On The Origin Of
Species, was published 150 years ago.

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And it changed forever our view
of the world and our place in it.

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What Darwin achieved was nothing
less than a complete explanation

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of the complexity
and diversity of all life.

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And yet, it's one of the simplest
ideas that anyone ever had.

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In this series,
I want to persuade you

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that evolution offers a far richer
and more spectacular view of life

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than any religious story.

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It's one reason why
I don't believe in God.

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I want to show you how Darwin opened
our eyes to the extraordinary reality

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of our world.

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In this first programme, I'm going to
tell you who Charles Darwin was,

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explain how he discovered his
theory of evolution, what it is,

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and why it matters.

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By the end, I hope to have convinced
you of the truth

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that evolution is a fact,
backed by undeniable evidence.

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And I want to give you a glimpse

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Once, people thought God had created
the world and every living thing,

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each with a purpose
in an ordered universe
over which our creator presided,

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rewarding good deeds
and punishing sin.

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Charles Darwin's theory
of evolution by natural selection

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blew a hole in this
comfortable explanation of life

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and faced us with a blindingly
obvious yet disturbing truth -

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humans don't have dominion
over animals.

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We are animals.

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We are the fifth ape.

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But even Darwin hesitated
to say this out loud.

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It throws into question our trust
in our fellow human beings.

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Are our morals and manners
just a veneer?

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Since a struggle for existence
drives evolution,

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why don't we humans run an entirely
dog-eat-dog world?

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How about genocide and ethnic
cleansing?

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Are they some kind of survival
strategy?

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In this programme, I want to confront

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the issue that Darwin skirted around
in The Origin Of Species,

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the evolution of human beings.

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I want to ask what it means
for us to be evolved.

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The question
is more urgent than ever.

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Increasingly,
religious people and others
attack Darwinism for, in their view,

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excusing selfishness and barbarism.

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Charles Darwin turned
our world upside down.

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His theory of evolution
by natural selection

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is one of the most profound and
far-reaching ideas in human history.

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It's also, alas,
one of the most controversial.

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Science now has the evidence
that proves evolution is true.

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Yet today, incredibly,

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the opposition to Darwin
is more fiercely vocal than ever -

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denying plain facts in more
and more elaborate ways.

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You haven't seen it
and I haven't seen it,

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so please stop calling it science!

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If we had gone from
slime to human beings,

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there'd be an
overwhelming amount of evidence.

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You are a teacher of science,

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and you think that the Earth
is less than 10,000 years old?

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Yes, I do.

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In this programme, the
increasingly aggressive backlash.

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"Right now, your destiny
is all (BLEEP) up. (BLEEP) atheist!"

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The battles that
I think really matter...

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We can't get into the business
of knocking down kids' religions

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and the religions of families.

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Why not, actually?

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Because...

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..and how the first man
to understand evolution

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himself wrestled
with religious faith.

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For Darwin, the problem
was close to home -

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