The Genius of Charles Darwin
2008 · 139 MIN · IMDB 8.4 · 1,011 VOTES · DIR. Russell Barnes
Overview
A documentary series from Channel 4, hosted by professor Richard Dawkins, well-known darwinist. The series mixes segments on the life and discoveries of Charles Darwin, the theory of natural selection and evolution, and Dawkins' attempts at convincing a group of school children that evolution explains the world around us better than any religion.
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00:00:00 This series is about perhaps the most powerful idea
00:02:27 Every animal was believed to have a unique place in God's creation
00:04:20 which is the Holy Book, so...
00:05:37 but yet, you've got millions and millions of pieces of evidence
00:07:48 But he was puzzled.
00:09:54 for millions of years, and were quite successful.
00:11:54 but millions of years of gradual change.
00:13:53 'So, each layer you go down to
00:16:08 They must have evolved.
00:18:06 until now, every species on the planet
00:19:43 when more complicated cells than bacteria first evolve.
00:21:33 Here was life in constant flux.
00:23:13 that succeed in cracking the seeds
00:25:19 thousands of animals are running for their lives
00:27:42 Darwin realised this was the key
00:30:00 with that ancestral group.
00:32:06 How are you?
00:33:57 we might expect to see a major shift in the frequency
00:36:26 which set our similar ideas.
00:38:25 Doubts may have lingered in Darwin's mind
00:40:50 Each gene is inherited in its entirety...or not at all.
00:42:46 He, of course, emphasised diversity, because that's what he saw
00:44:23 "Same, same, same... Ah! A difference there.
00:46:11 At the end of Origin Of Species, he contemplated how an entangled bank
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Production Record
DirectorRussell Barnes
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,011