Richard Dawkins on Evolution & Origins of Life (VIDEO)
"The universe could so easily have remained lifeless and simple -just
physics and chemistry, just the scattered dust of the cosmic explosion
that gave birth to time and space. The fact that it did not -the fact
that life evolved out of literally nothing, some 10 billion years after
the universe evolved literally out of nothing -is a fact so staggering
that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. And even that is
not the end of the matter. Not only did evolution happen: it eventually
led to beings capable of comprehending the process by which they
comprehend it."
Richard Dawkins -famed Oxford evolutionary biologist reflecting on the sheer wonder of the emergence of life on Earth and the evolutionary process in his classic The Ancestor's Tale.
Posted by Casey Kazan.
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'Richard Dawkins, Darwin & the Big Questions
"The universe could so easily have remained lifeless and simple -just physics and chemistry, just the scattered dust of the cosmic explosion that gave birth to time and space. The fact that it did not -the fact that life evolved out of literally nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved literally out of nothing -is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. And even that is not the end of the matter. Not only did evolution happen: it eventually led to beings capable of comprehending the process by which they comprehend it."
GOD?
Posted by: Jerrell Thomas | November 18, 2009 at 09:12 AM
Why do we have to believe that life ever had a beginning? Is it because of the Big Bang theory? that the universe emerged out of the singularity. Why can't we see that life always is, always was, and always will be? That the singularity itself was a living self, and emerged into galaxies, living on their own, which evolved into solar systems, and then evolved it's life onto a planet, and so on. Watch 'Kamatica' about the evolving self.
Posted by: Nick | November 22, 2009 at 03:17 PM
*Kymatica
Posted by: Nick | November 22, 2009 at 03:20 PM