Darwin's pit bull not so aggressive in real life
By JAMES DACEY - PHYSICSWORLD.COM
Added: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 UTC
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We are like detectives who have arrived on the scene after the crime has been committed; we find traces of evidence everywhere including DNA footprints.
A good scientific theory is one that is vulnerable to being proven wrong but has not yet been disproved.
Historically, religion has attempted to dispel confusion but science does this too and it does it better!
These were just three sound bites that stuck in my mind after going along to see Richard Dawkins as he delivered another dogged defence of the theory of evolution in Bristol yesterday.
Speaking at the cityâs Festival of Ideas, Dawkins was accompanied on stage by his wife Lalla Ward, an English actress best known for appearing in the BBC science fiction series Dr Who where she played the part of Romana in the late 1970s.
According to Dawkins, the couple have been giving talks as a double act for the past few years — ever since Lalla stepped in when Dawkins lost his voice on a tour of the US.
The couple used the first section of the event to read extracts from Dawkinsâ new book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. âThis is not another anti-religious book - Iâve done that and got the T-shirt. Evolution is now a fact and this book will finally lay out all the evidence,â he said.
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