Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
Darwin published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh; instead, he helped to investigate marine invertebrates. Studies at the University of Cambridge encouraged his passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author.
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What happens when a world-renowned scientist, crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter, formulates a theory in conflict with religious dogma? This is the story of Charles Darwin and his master-work "The Origin of Species". It tells of a global revolution played out within the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most dangerous idea in history; and a theory saved from extinction by the logic of a child.
Keywords: 1800s, 1850s, 19th-century, animal, animal-death, animated-sequence, apoplectic-stroke, apparition, atheism, atheist
How he saw the world changed it forever
[from trailer]::Thomas Huxley: You've killed God, sir!
[from trailer]::Charles Darwin: Suppose the whole world stopped believing that God had any sort of plan for us?
[from trailer]::Emma Darwin: Do you not care that you and I may be separated for all eternity?
Reverend John Innes: Charles. Charles my old friend, there you are. May I join you?::Charles Darwin: Yes. Yes, of course.::Reverend John Innes: Mrs. Darwin has told me about the book you're writing.::Charles Darwin: Oh, no, no, not anymore, thank goodness.::Reverend John Innes: You mean you finished it?::Charles Darwin: It's been finished for me, actually. A Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace has arrived independently at exactly the same opinion. Expressed in a... In a mere twenty pages. Now there's brevity for you. I had covered two hundred fifty so far and have come to a dead end, so whilst having wasted twenty years on the project, I have at least rid of it.::Reverend John Innes: Well... Well, The Lord moves in mysterious ways.::Charles Darwin: Hmmm, yes he does doesn't he? You know, I was remarking only the other day, how he has endowed us in all of his blessed generosity with not one but nine-hundred species of intestinal worm, each with its own unique method of infiltrated the mucosa and burrowing through to the bloodstream. And on the love that he shows for butterflies by inventing a wasp that lays its eggs inside the living flesh of caterpillars.::Reverend John Innes: I have said on many previous occasions, it is not for us to speculate at His reasons.::Charles Darwin: Oh no, we can leave that to Mr. Wallace! Shall I advise him to stay abroad, do you think? With his opinions if he shows his face around here, he may be required to kneel on rock salt! *Snarls at Reverend Innes
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Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the dinosaurs existed. Single celled organisms inundated the oceans, and the soil swarmed with living creatures. Where did it all come from and how do you go from a single-celled organism to a trillion-celled organism like man?
Keywords: alanine, amino-acid, ammonia, anomalocaris, astrophotograph, bare-chested-male, blue-whale, brine-fly, brine-shrimp, bubble-bath
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As the debate between Evolution and Creationism rages, 'Evolution: The Musical!' invites you to enter a world where both theories are true. In this musical tour-de-funk, we meet The Beasties, a clan of humans who have recently evolved from primates, and The Blesseds, a self-righteous religious sect who descended directly from Adam and Eve. When a brutal slaying provokes the Beasties to attack the Blesseds, all hell breaks loose and an unlikely romance throws a monkey wrench into the whole musical mess. Will the rule of humanity go to the ape people or the Jesus freaks? Anything is possible in this awkward marriage of West Side Story and South Park.
Keywords: bible, charles-darwin, church, creationism, dancer, dancing, donut, evolution, exclamation-point-in-title, hip-hop
Father Catheter: Believe in Jeezy. Christ dog for sheezy.
Mother Grizzard: Her thighs are yearning for the burning from the fire of the choir.
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Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beautiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
Keywords: apology, apple, apple-pie, atomic-bomb, atomic-explosion, australia, ayers-rock, babe-scientist, beer, beer-brewery
One Seriously Funny Movie
In 1905 he discovered relativity... In 1906 he invented rock and roll.
Albert: I'm a Tasmanian
Albert Einstein: That's it! That's the theory of relativity! Light travels to us from the hands of the clock, to tell us the time. But, if we were to travel away from the clock at the speed of light...::Marie Curie: The hands of the clock would appear to have stopped!::Albert Einstein: Time would stand still! This moment *would* last forever.
Albert Einstein: Dad, I want to be a physicist.::Mr. Einstein: What do they grow, son?::Albert Einstein: They don't grow anything.::Mr. Einstein: Well what's the use of them then?
Albert Einstein: Just a moment Marie, I'm having an idea
Albert Einstein: If you can't trust the Governments of the world, who can you trust?
Brian Asprin: [Scientists in Australia are listening to Einstein playing Rock and Roll music on the radio] That's Albert's music.::Lunatic Professor: Yes, crikey yes! That's 4/4 time.::Ernest Rutherford: 4/4 time; that'll drain the power out of anything.::Marie Curie: [Scene returns to the Academy of science in France, Einstein continues to play the electric guitar, the 'Extreme Danger' warning light on the bomb flashes then goes out, the 'Overload' warning light starts flashing showing that the bomb is been drained of its energy] It's working. Whatever you are doing keep doing it, it's working!