Steve Jones: Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right

Synopsis: A streamed video recording of a public lecture given by Steve Jones at the Royal Society. Science is about disbelief. It accepts that all knowledge is provisional and that any theory might in principle be disproved. Some theories are better established than others: the earth is probably not flat, babies are almost certainly not brought by storks, and men and dinosaurs are unlikely to have appeared on earth within the past few thousand years. Many biologists are worried by a recent and unexpected return of an argument based on belief by the certainty, untestable and unsupported by evidence, that life did not evolve but appeared by supernatural means. Worldwide, more people believe in creationism than in evolution. Why do no biologists agree? Steve Jones talks about what evolution is, about new evidence that men and chimps are close relatives and about how we are, nevertheless, unique and why creationism does more harm to religion than it does to science.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2006
Year of production: 2006
Subjects: Biology; Religious studies
Keywords: creationism; human evolution; philosophy of science; religious belief and practice; scientific data

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