Dr Matt Ridley and Professor Richard Dawkins on the existence of extraterrestrial life and evolution
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- Listen to two of this country's most influential science writers as Dawkins shares his views on the existence of extraterrestrial life and evolution.
Filmed at Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne by Newton TV.
This video showed up as a recommended video to me yesterday and to see two of my fav scientists debate really excited me and that cliff hanger at the end. Oh well, thanks anyway
Where the hell is the rest of it?
Legendary
Did you ever find it? I want to watch the whole thing as well, lol
I come from the future. Have you found what I am looking for?
Can't remember, it was 7 years ago lol
@@Trepur349 lmao 7 years!!
Where does he buy his ties?
he made it by his self
Wrong - it was Darwin AND Wallace in their joint paper on natural selection in 1858.
Dr. Dawkins was asked the following:
'Can you give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?' His reply; no answer and a look of bewilderment.
Would someone like to weigh in on this? If a mutation or the palette called matter within which the genome resides does not possess the ability to create new information within the genome to evolve into homo sapiens, then how did we become humans? How did the rest of the code come into being?
New genetic Information arises trivially by the most basic types of mutation. Take a duplication, followed by a substitution.
First of all an analogy:
Original Sequence: "HAT"
Duplication: "HAT HAT"
Substitution C for H: "CAT HAT"
It's easy to see that the words convey different information.
Now an actual genetic example:
Original Sequence: "GCA" (codes for Alanine)
Duplication: "GCA GCA" (codes for 2x Alanine)
Substitution: "UCA GCA" (codes for Serine, then Alanine)
As you saw, just duplicating a codon (three letters) and then switching one letter causes a new amino acid to be produced. These are very common types of mutations and are an easy way to create new genetic information.
This question was a popular one and made its rounds back in the 2005-2012 new atheist era when intelligent design was trying to sneak into the classroom. I always felt it was asked in bad faith, because it sounds profound and works as a gotcha question, even though the answer is pretty straightforward, although it requires knowledge of dna structure and how errors are made in the replication process. The question fell out of favor over time and has been replaced with 'how can something come from nothing' - the go-to 'had to be god' aha gotcha checkmate atheists question.
@gary clevinger wrong
Evolution is the meaning of life!!!
What is this nonsense??? 😁 🤣