Evolution 101
18 05 2009Funny that evolution is all around us and I was still quite unaware of a lot of things about it. The above video is a very disarming look at what the theory of evolution is and importantly, what it is not. Here are some facts that I either learned for the first time or had mostly forgotten:
- evolution is not the study of the origins of the universe – Cosmogenesis is.
- evolution is not the study of how life first began – Abiogenesis is.
- evolution has nothing to do with your belief in a God, many gods or no gods.
- evolution combined with man’s intervention has brought us the modern dessert banana which didn’t exist 200 years ago (it came from plantains).
All together, a good 10 minute documentary worthy of your thought. They avoided the topic of whether humans evolved from apes (probably on purpose) which is another whole messy thing to think about.
“Dramatic change can be made, one small step at a time”
