The Royal Institution
The world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins presents the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES in 1991.
Original broadcast live on the BBC, the series explored “our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe.”
This is the first lecture in the series entitled “Waking up in the Universe”.
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15 Creationists watched "some" of this.
40:25 Lol. Did someone really say that?
I would love to see professor Dawkins do one of these in present day 🙂
Utterly fascinating. 🙂
That message sent from our planet should travel at the speed of light, then, it will travel accompanied with the image of us, sending the message. When the message arrives to the supposed receivers, and they look through their telescopes to our planet, they see the light that went out with the message, thus, they see us, not dinosaurs! I guess…
Thank you very much Dr Richard Dawkins.
Nice video
Good video
Always look forward to these lectures at Christmas.
The same people who brings a too small kid to an airplane, or a movie or something. Go spit! Get yer own airline to get around. Air barf springs to mind, or Libero Airways with wings or some crap like that. Whiny? You bet I am! And I have reasons….and if you ever sit next to me on a plane, I'll tell you aaall about it in a loud and annoying voice. 😉 Seriously….don't bring kids where they shouldn't be if it can be avoided. Especially airplanes, where they can't do much about the pressure. <—-every parent should know this before putting a baby on a plane. ( I've had medical reasons for not being able to plop my ears, and I flew once. I cried all the way, so when I see parents with small babies on a plane, I try very hard to shut up.
"I felt the wind of it!" That's exactly what I will say, in the future, to anyone who's just flapping he's gums. Brilliant! 🙂
He was off by a lot about when the sun will become a red giant but maybe everyone at that time was?
A worm fuzzy Dawkins ! LOVE IT 🙂
WHAT A HANDSOME MAN, almost as handsome as hermione granger
I bet the baby bit isn't staged at all, and Dawkins just winged it
Wait! Did he actually say: the first Christmas, naught BC?
I'm going to watch this with my kids. Dawkins before he became a curmudgeonly old fool.
just when i thought i had a good knowledge of evolution, Prof. Dawkins you taught me more. this is the beauty of science, you can never know all but you can always know more than you already know.
Dawkins, reaching to those kids while its still early.
54:47 :O Walter lewin probably saw this loll
Amazing to think that this presentation is now more than a quarter century old!
This dude knows how to keep people interested. Reminds me of my physics professors in uni. The dude would stop at nothing to keep students' attention on point. Once he even went as far as to balance on top of his desk, on a chair that was balancing on one leg, with him balancing on one leg on top of it. The old dude had his game plan worked out.
This is underrated.
Where is his next lecture?
Pure Gold!
Yeah hes amazing good looks inteligent soothing voice an hes a fello brit xx
Amazing!
What is a baby doing their, ruining the lecturer. Iam all for children to learn but this is taking the piss.
I love you Dr. Dawkins….❤️
Why is no one laughing at his jokes? By Jovian is great.
Of all the xmas lectures i watched when i was a kid, this is the one that i remember the most, had the most impact….thank you xx