Channel 4: The Genius of Charles Darwin

Starting next week, Channel 4 in the UK is screening a three-part documentary series on the scientific legacy of Charles Darwin, hosted by our old friend Richard Dawkins.

Digiguide describes the series:

In 1859, English naturalist Charles Darwin published his masterpiece On the Origin of Species. In it Darwin put forward his theory – that everything on this planet has evolved by natural selection rather than by God or a higher being. The book caused outrage at the time, but radically changed perceptions of our existence.

Nearly 150 years later, Darwin’s theory remains controversial, despite overwhelming evidence backing it up. Richard Dawkins — ethologist, scientist and one of Britain’s best-known atheists … — examines the theory in our programme of the week, The Genius of Charles Darwin. A strong three-parter, Dawkins retraces Darwin’s journey aboard The Beagle and re-examines the evidence of the natural world, showing how the ongoing process of sex, suffering and death drives evolution on as the fittest survive and the weakest perish. But although the evidence seems irrefutable, Dawkins has some tough critics to convince — a class of intelligent but sceptical British teenagers. Can he convince them that Darwin’s theory is true?

Screenings on Channel 4 and S4C

Watch clips from the series

Update: There’s also a BBC Radio 4 interview with Dawkins about the series available on his web site.

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