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

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Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic.

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children were founded by Michael Faraday in 1825, with himself as the inaugural lecturer. The 1991 lecturer was Richard Dawkins whose five one-hour lectures, originally televised by the BBC, are now available free online, courtesy of The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. The entire 5-hour program is also available on a 2-DVD set through our online store. http://richarddawkins.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=5

The DVD includes subtitles in English, Spanish, French and Polish.

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http://richarddawkins.net/GUITUtranscript

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Originally broadcast as The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children, 1991.

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44 thoughts on “Ep3: Climbing Mount Improbable – Growing Up in the Universe – Richard Dawkins”

  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)

  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?

  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"

  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.

  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.

  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 !!!

  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

  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.

  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

  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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