The Purpose of Purpose - Richard Dawkins

This talk was given in Michigan, Minneapolis, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Filmed at:
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of Oklahoma - Norman, Oklahoma
Holland Performing Arts Center - Omaha, Nebraska

Introductions by:
PZ Myers - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barry Weaver - Norman, Oklahoma
Richard Holland - Omaha, Nebraska

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Facts Of Evolution: Universal Common Descent

Facts Of Evolution: Universal Common Descent.

Explaining Evolution To A Creationist

Blackadder: "Explaining Evolution To A Creationist"
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/



Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

All episodes star Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and his dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series is set in a different historical period: apart from Blackadder and Baldrick, the main characters are different in each series.

The first series was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by John Lloyd.

In 2000 the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the "100 Greatest British Television Programmes", a list created by the British Film Institute. Also in the 2004 TV poll to find "Britain's Best Sitcom", Blackadder was voted the second best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses. It was also ranked as the 20th Best TV Show of All Time by Empire Magazine.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder

The Link - Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestors

The Link - An incredible 95 percent complete fossil of a 47-million-year-old human ancestor has been discovered and, after two years of secret study, an international team of scientists has revealed it to the world. The fossil's remarkable state of preservation allows an unprecedented glimpse into early human evolution.

Nice Guys Finish First - Richard Dawkins

A 1986 documentary from the BBC Horizon series. In this video Richard Dawkins explains how natural selection can favor co-operation in nature, so long as it is of benefit to the selfish gene.

His search for stable co-operate strategies, which remain unaffected by cheating and exploitation involves an extraordinary game known as the Prisoners' Dilemma, normally used by psychologists to study human behavior.

In their attempts to earn real money, players must wrestle with a dilemma - whether to follow their natural instincts of co-operation or the dictates of reason and behave selfishly.

RDF TV - "Teach the Controversy" - A.C. Grayling

Philosopher A.C. Grayling explains why "Teaching the Controversy" isn't a good approach to science education, whether it's regarding Evolution, Astronomy or Medicine.




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Inside Darwin's Mind

The oddity of flightless birds leads Darwin to question the intentions of the Creator.

Life Beyond Earth - Origin And Evolution Of Life In The Universe

Life Beyond Earth: Origin And Evolution Of Life In The Universe - Best Of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.



BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S "COSMOS":
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1) 10 Years After: Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Reflect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leTNfw...
2) Lost Between Immensity And Eternity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVsDg...
3) The Realm Of The Galaxies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axoV6...
4) Our Galaxy, The Milky Way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOazBT...
5) Our Solar System:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBqjob...
6) Eratosthenes And The Round Earth Model:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5UKt...
7) The Library Of Alexandria:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVQs4B...
8) A Short History Of The Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2r0q...
9) Artificial And Natural Selection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3uToV...
10) The Cosmic Year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqbm_...
11) Tree Of Life - 4 Billion Years Of Evolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0UEC...
12) The Miracle Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOyojW...
13) DNA - The Common Basis Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmuvj...
14) Abiogenesis - The Origin Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet1xk...
15) Astronomy vs Astrology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaQS9...
16) Pictures In The Sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwCAwc...
17) Ancient Astronomy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5dwJ...
18) Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lfmRq...
19) The Mysterious Tunguska Event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVof7...
20) Life Beyond Earth - Origin Of Life In The Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ivTd...

Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history.

A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel "Contact", the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemecki's film of the same name starring Jodie Foster.

During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated skeptical inquiry, secular humanism, and the scientific method.

• http://www.carlsagan.com

PZ Myers destroys Simmonds in evolution debate

PZ Myers completely eviscerates his opposition Geoffrey Simmonds in this classic debate. This Simmonds guy clearly knows bugger all regarding evolution but writes books about it. Can we expect anything else from the Discovery Institute?

Evolution fish with fingers Transitional fossils

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian period, the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed on land, the first woody plants appeared, and the water's edge was becoming a new kind of environment.

The move to land was a very gradual process, and the evolution of limbs wasn't a simple adaptation resulting from animals crawling onto the shore and never looking back. In fact, the new picture of this transition shows that most of the changes needed for life on dry land happened in creatures that were still living in the water. Some fishlike vertebrates had already begun to evolve limbs by around 400 million years ago: They were called "lobe-fins," with fins that looked like fleshy paddles, and they had lungs as well as gills.

Can you trust your thoughts?

Can you trust your thoughts? Yes.



A few notes: Our sensory neurons do reliably transmit information about the world around us. Neurons in higher cortical areas can be quite noisy, but averaging the activity from small populations of such neurons still produces a reliable signal.

Its not just our senses that we trust. You didn't hit your hand because you trusted either your memory (of getting hit by an object like a hammer) or your logical reasoning (that hitting your hand with a hammer, though something you have never experienced, would hurt).

Science is a self correcting system. If a result is unable to be reproduced, it is discarded. New findings constantly reshape our thinking. We are continuously learning about the world around us, and have no problem admitting that we don't have all the answers.

So it is clearly safe for everyone to Think about it.

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The Origin of the Brain

The human brain contains over 100 billion neurons, and roughly 1 quintillion synapses. But how did it all get started? How did the first nervous systems, the first brains evolve? How did a bunch of simple cells evolve into a biological computer?

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And remember to always Think about it.

The Origin of Intelligence

This is the first in a 3 part series on the origin of intelligence. Future videos will discuss the origin of the brain, and the origin of cognition. In them we will see that human intelligence is not of supernatural origin. It is merely the product of evolution by natural selection.



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To learn more about lactose metabolism in E.coli visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_operon

To learn more about nylon digesting bacteria visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylonase

And remember to always Think about it.

An Archaeological Moment in Time

Taking a look at how different societies are advancing at different rates on the same date in the distant past.

Smacking Down a Creationist Fool

DonExodus2 on Youtube brings down the lies of Casey Luskin on that moron-enabling network Fox News.

Transitional Forms - Undeniable Evidence For Evolution

"Evolution is REAL Science #5: Evidence For Evolution - Transitional Forms" by
• http://www.youtube.com/standup4REALsc...
• http://www.anevolvingcreation.net/sta...

Does the evidence support Evolution?

Find out what evolutionary theory actually predicts about intermediate forms in the fossil record.

Evolution is testable ... human and ape chromosome numbers.

Theories are crucial to science because they provide a coherent framework for making sense out of scientific observations.

An example of such a theory is the Theory of Evolution. Without the theoretical framework of evolution, biologists would be limited to observing living things and noting the similarities and differences between them.



Fossil discoveries, combined with evidence from morphological, genetic, and embryological studies of existing organisms lead us to a powerful explanation of a large set of biological observations. These observations only make sense using the REAL science of evolution.

Read more about this topic:
• http://www.anevolvingcreation.net/sta...

Episode 2: Refuting Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort

An open opposition to the misinformation in Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort's recent Youtube post: Origin Into Schools. This episode talks about law of religious practice, history of the public prayer movement, and what the growth of atheism means for America.

Refuting Way Of the Master by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort

Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort and their dishonest tactics are examined. I also refute their 'evidence' against evolution in their WOTM video.

'Why Evolution Is True' by Jerry Coyne, AAI 2009

Jerry Coyne explains 'Why Evolution is True' (also the title of his excellent new book) at the Atheist Alliance International 2009 conference, sponsored by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.



Jerry Coyne's is the author of "Why Evolution Is True".

Jerry Coyne's Blog: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com

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'There is grandeur in this view of life' by Richard Dawkins, AAI 2009

Richard Dawkins' talk at the 2009 Atheist Alliance International Conference in Burbank, California. He expands the last paragraph of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" as a framework for the talk. This is also the framework for the last chapter of Dawkins' new book "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution".



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