Darwin's Dangerous Idea

[sakabatou]

This is an excellent series of Darwin's discoveries and the fight between him and Richard Owen.

Part 1 starts here:

[longship]

1. A great book by Dan Dennett, too

He really gets deeply into why evolution was such a dangerous idea. He calls it a universal acid.

Universal acid is a liquid so corrosive that it will eat through anything! The problem is: what do you keep it in? It dissolves glass bottles and stainless-steel canisters as readily as paper bags. What would happen if you some how came upon or created a dollop of universal acid? Would the whole planet eventually be destroyed? What would it leave in its wake? After everything had been transformed by its encounter with universal acid, what would the world look like? Little did I realize that in a few years I would encounter an idea -- Darwin's idea -- bearing an unmistakable likeness to universal acid: it eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake a revolutionized world-view, with most of the old landmarks still recognizable, but transformed in fundamental ways.

Daniel C. Dennett, from Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995

[sakabatou]

2. Bump for the afternoon crowd

[frogmarch]

3. Thanks! Superb! Now on to

Parts 2, 3 and 4. There are four altogether, right?

[sakabatou]

4. There are 11 parts

http://w-w-w.youtube.com/watch?playnext=1&index=0&feature=PlayList&v=910dz5sCb1I&list=PLAA7266B85052D062

Just take out the w's in "www"

[frogmarch]

5. Thanks! I am loving this. nt

[sakabatou]

6. You're welcome