Ep3: Climbing Mount Improbable – Growing Up in the Universe – Richard Dawkins

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1. 22:00 "DNA cums like an everflowing river down the generation." Lol this statement could be taken literally and work just as well.

   Edit: cums.

2. Anyone think it was really adorable how Dawkins laughed at his own joke at 10:59?!
   (PS – as someone formally education themselves on evolution after years of religious brainwashing in a private school system, I think you for allowing me to open my mind and embrace my existence fully)

3. Look good. Yes that's a younger Dawkins.

4. so it seems that lens has do develop together with an eye so some transparent material has to cover half eye before you get to pin hole right? i think that thing wasn't told so clear or else naughtylus could get perfect eye too and not be stuck

5. "The stick insect fits its environment like a lock"…..This statement sound like it would be more appropriate under Intelligent design than evolution?

6. Why are creationists so afraid of this.. I just don't understand.. It is wonderful to learn about these things..

7. Who sets the target phrase and check which is right or wrong in real evoultionary steps?
   This analogy is complete nonsense according to dawkins' own explanation of how evolution works.
   So called "unguided random process"

8. You might say that bug was…"sticky".

9. ive watched this several times ! and never bored 🙂

10. Brilliant. This is the stuff I will see with my children if I ever have them.

11. This is gold

12. Richard, without the penguin tie and different colored socks almost couldn't recognize you! 😀

13. 11:03 TIPS FEDORA

14. These lectures were way ahead of their time, love Richard Dawkins. The voice of a British Lord is always the best way to explain science.

15. Dawkins does not do well with teaching children. I could tell he would be too confusing for today’s kids.

16. Ep4 is blocked in my country 🙁

17. There is no such thing called a gradual lock!!! There is either one lock with 3 digits or 3 locks with 1 digit each. What a cheap way he uses to mind wash youth.

18. Seeing how good he was with the children, without the least bit of condescension, raises his stock even further in my opinion.

19. I would almost be compelled to move to the UK just so my children are raised speaking English and they can watch these lectures as they grow up.

20. Dawkins is older than my dad here but looks half his age

21. I have always thought that evolution is some wild random coincidences. But Richard clearly pointed out that there is another way nature had done it. Thank you so much !!!

22. Wow. Those kids are lucky to have THE Richard Dawkins as their teacher. One of my heros!

23. I did not evolve enough to have seen this video before. Excellent lecture !

24. I am probably the smartest person in the world…. especially compared to Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris…. you can even ask them, well except for Hitchens, but they'll tell you that I'm the smartest… well maybe they would, but I'm not sure I've let them in on this yet… but if I had, they would probably act like they've never heard of me at all to protect my genius… seriously I'm just like, whoa, so smart…. its pretty crazy… but I cant tell let anybody really see how smart I am or they would try and kill me like a Frankenstein monster, so just take my word for it… seriously, I'm like uber smart.. and stuff… I have the best words too

25. This is beautiful.

26. I like to try and fathom how folding that piece of paper in lesson 1. 50 times would create a thickness that would reach the orbit of mars and that bacteria dividing for a week have created more bacteria than the number of atoms in the known universe. It’s facts as such that I can’t conceptually grasp that help me entertain the time involved to make complex evolution possible.

27. Take a stadium that holds 70,000 people. How long would the line to get in be in single file if each person occupied a two foot space. You’ll say “no way”! Stuff like this I find interesting.

28. Perfectly said/done Richard Dawkins and Bryson ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ★★★★★

    Katalyzt

29. Incredible presentation! Thank you Professor Dawkins. Lucky kids. I hope Professor that you can be gratified now in your older age that you have contributed to humanity more than any religious leader (in my humble opinion). You are courageous to continue to teach the people who are willing to listen to reason, evidence and truth (science vs. religion).

30. After light sensitive cells grew into pairs of functional eyeballs, and found their way in sockets in optimum location in the forehead, some optic nerves started to appear, longing after connecting themselves to the brain, in the same way that weeping willows roots are going in search of water. It is not certain though if it's not the brain that would have looked for the eyes. Just like the egg and the chicken and the order in which they came. Atheist Dawkins has achieved a lot given that he is assuming that his atheist brain could only be an unintelligently designed designoid object. Atheist Darwinist evangelist Dawkins is preaching comic book mythology.

31. After sitting through the awe inspiring eye and wing explanations/demonstrations I know there are some people who would still just watch this with their fingers in their ears and their eyes/minds closed tightly

32. that eagle's name is definitely Majestic Death

33. why would people dislike an educational video of such a nice quality

34. I totally understand that stick-insect.

35. I'm in LOVE. Don't know whether it's with Evolution or with Dawkins.

36. The beginning of the intro/outro music reminds me of the Incredibles theme.

37. Thanks for this playlist

38. creationism = fake science

39. awesome. but on earphones it seems like the audio goes from right to left back and forth.. might just be me. lol. O_O;

40. Genius

41. I’m trying to pay attention but holy fuck is he ever gorgeous

42. a 63 creacionistas no les gusto el video

43. Some of the kids in the audience look far too young to understand this stuff

44. Dawkins is a classic example of somebody who is very good in their own field but seems to fail to realise that a 'field' is just that – one element of truth in a whole muddled patchwork – even most physicists would be unlikely to claim that there is no higher mind out there somewhere – please stop this lazy forcing of one's way into other disciplines and fascistic moulding of those things we do know into a philosophical 'gesamtkunstwerk'

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