Name: 理查德-道金斯 - 查爾斯-達爾文的天才 - 第3部分：上帝反擊[+副刊]。 (Richard Dawkins - The Genius of Charles Darwin - Part 3: God Strikes Back [+Subs])
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Charles Darwin turned our world upside down.

His theory of evolution by natural selection

is one of the most profound and far-reaching ideas in human history.

It's also, alas, one of the most controversial.

Science now has the evidence that proves evolution is true.

the opposition to Darwin is more fiercely vocal than ever -

denying plain facts in more and more elaborate ways.

You haven't seen it and I haven't seen it,

If we had gone from slime to human beings,

there'd be an overwhelming amount of evidence.

and you think that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old?

In this programme, the increasingly aggressive backlash.

"Right now, your destiny is all (BLEEP) up. (BLEEP) atheist!"

The battles that I think really matter...

We can't get into the business of knocking down kids' religions

..and how the first man to understand evolution

For Darwin, the problem was close to home -

as we confront the ranks of religious fundamentalists

When I was a young boy, I looked to God to explain life.

And then I was introduced to Darwin and evolution by my father.

It didn't seem possible to me that something so simple

But then I learnt, thought about it a bit more

really was capable of explaining everything about life -

the beauty, the complexity, the diversity.

Then I thought, "Well, if science can explain something

"on what science could explain more generally,

"without any recourse to the supernatural?"

At that moment, I became an atheist and I've never looked back.

Charles Darwin too changed his mind about this biggest of questions.

As a young man, during his voyage on the Beagle,

had created the world and everything in it.

But then he came across more and more evidence

Fossil ancestors, patterns of anatomical resemblance,

all showed that life forms had changed over time.

Darwin believed there was an entirely natural explanation.

All animals vary, and in the competition of nature,

and more likely to reproduce than others,

Darwin grasped that the religious story of creation

ran against the evidence of the natural world.

With evolution, God just wasn't part of the picture.

But there was a problem for Darwin. His wife, Emma, was religious

and the trouble began soon after they got married in 1839.

Emma wrote him a letter describing her deep faith.

But Darwin was no longer convinced there was a God.

He agonised over the letter and scribbled on it,

Darwin never criticised religion directly in public.

I think he didn't want to hurt his wife's feelings.

Instead, he let his science do the talking.

Yet sadly today, it seems harder and harder for people to see the light.

Here, in the 21st century, people are retreating from reason,

trying to turn back the clock to a world before Darwin.

Genesis chapter one says everything that God made was very...?

None of you think kill or be killed, survival of the fittest,

You don't die because you get old, you die because you're a sinner.

Up till Noah's day, there's no record of rain.

is a celebrity among evangelical Christians.

He believes in the literal truth of the Bible's creation story

and attacks evolution on the very crudest level.

It's the result of finishing my university course,

"If evolution is true, why can't we see it happening?"

Third-year genetics question to the professor.