The Voyage That Shook the World

00:00:21 200 years ago he was born

00:02:39 liking to take long walks on his own - inventing things.

00:04:57 Later in life, when Darwin explores the possibility of evolution

00:07:24 He writes about it less and less.

00:09:46 some of the questions which have been reopened by modern debates

00:12:14 Just like a detective studying a crime scene where the clues can be interpreted a number of ways

00:14:20 The ocean rising and lowering over great eons of time... "

00:16:11 Enough water to cut valleys like the Santa Cruz - not one, but many.

00:18:20 "These are the most abject and miserable wretches, I anywhere beheld...

00:20:52 of high mountain ranges you need lateral movements.

00:23:00 which certainly gave him an impetus for developing the whole theory of evolution.

00:25:04 and they were about to collide in astonishing ways-

00:26:56 a concept from the philosophers of ancient Greece.

00:28:52 for transmutation to happen.

00:30:53 or will not breed or hybridize with other species, even closely related ones.

00:33:02 that these islands are thousands of years old. That they're young

00:34:54 And in this grand scale I don't see any evidence, really.

00:37:11 what he was writing about, what he was developing in his mind

00:39:18 who, he had imagined, were fit, healthy, happy children-

00:41:44 people were envisaging changing organisms at will

00:43:36 Well I think most modern biologists would say it's stacking up pretty well -

00:45:45 Without the bedrock of accepting the truth of Genesis

00:47:56 According to Darwinism, a Creator God is no longer needed as the cause of human origins.

00:49:54 I started to study biochemistry at that time