The Voyage That Shook the World

00:00:21 200 years ago he was born

00:02:46 Darwin himself says that as a child he used to lie... or at least he puts it around another way

00:05:06 Notebooks filled with thoughts, questions, ideas...

00:07:45 It's often said that Darwin was the naturalist on board the Beagle

00:10:13 Lyell the lawyer, with his immensely old earth.

00:12:43 But at the risk of missing other possibilities.

00:14:51 either within the valley or along the open coast... "

00:16:44 is believed to have been cut by such a flood.

00:19:13 it's pretty clear that he by that time shares the growing suspicion

00:21:50 According to Lyell's long ages of uplift, they should be fossilized or decomposed.

00:23:48 that is the very low end of it.

00:25:50 with particular groups of species created in specific places.

00:27:54 So when he came here to the Galápagos, he had Blyth's idea of natural selection

00:29:50 where he described God as the 'law-giver' but not haste 'miracle-maker'.

00:32:07 and you could expect overtime, a blending of the various traits

00:34:02 and the other years you have the same species of finch with thin beaks.

00:36:27 Three years later, he married his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood.

00:38:37 in nature, and tragically, in his own family.

00:41:01 not everybody's going to like it. I mean, people today still don't like it.

00:43:08 could be created by random mechanisms.

00:45:14 Darwin had embraced Lyell's goal of freeing science from the Bible.

00:47:35 And particularly in Darwin's case, because of course, he was coming up with something

00:49:36 About40 years ago, I first heard that evolution might not be true

183:01:02 received the chance of a lifetime.