Evolution (TV series)

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Not to be confused with Evolution (2001 film).
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Evolution is a 2001

NOVA
.

Overview

The spokespeople for the series were

Eugenie C. Scott (education spokesperson), Arthur Peacocke and Arnold Thomas (religious spokespeople). The series was narrated by the Irish actor Liam Neeson
.

The series was accompanied by a book by the popular science writer Carl Zimmer Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea.[1] An extensive website provides teaching resources for each episode's material, including "The Mating Game", further looks at Charles Darwin, and an interactive history of speciation in the invented "pollencreeper" birds.

The episode "What about God?" features discussion of the issues of

Protestant college that teaches evolution
but has in the past restricted professors from taking a stance on the literal versus the allegorical interpretations of Adam and Eve in the Genesis account of creation.

Cast

Actor Character
Roger Brierley Charles Lyell
Anthony Carrick Samuel Wilberforce
Jane Cunliffe Emma Darwin
Manon Eames Jessie Brodie
Will Fawcett John Gould
Cornelius Garrett Gentleman #2
Andrew Heath Gentleman #1
Andy Henderson
Thomas Huxley
Chris Larkin Charles Darwin
Joshua Losey Gamekeeper
Eleanor Ogbourne
Annie Darwin
John Quentin Oxford Don
Matthew Radford Richard Owen
Ian Shaw Robert FitzRoy
Mark Tandy Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Tobias Vaughan William Erasmus Darwin
John Walters James Manby Gully

Guest appearances

Episodes

  • "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (two hours)
  • "Great Transformations" (one hour): the episode refers of the discovery that whales evolved from wolf-like carnivores, and of the publication of a related paper on Science.[2]
  • "Extinction!" (one hour)
  • "The Evolutionary Arms Race" (one hour)
  • "Why Sex?" (one hour)
  • "The Mind's Big Bang" (one hour - covering the topics of how the human mind was born, art, language and
    memes
    in general)
  • "What About God?" (one hour)

Reception

TV critic Julie Salamon, writing in The New York Times, said that "[a] powerful sense of drama, discovery and intellectual enthusiasm runs through this rich eight-hour series ... The series covers an enormous amount of ground but doesn't leave you feeling swamped."[3]

Being made and broadcast in the country where

A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism to show that there were "scientists that dispute the claims".[5]

References

  1. ISBN 0-06-019906-7
    .
  2. OCLC 5892495080
    . The series can provide some excellent models for how science progresses.
  3. ^ A Stark Explanation for Mankind From an Unlikely Rebel
  4. ^ Congregational Study Guide for Evolution from the National Center for Science Education
  5. Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture

External links

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