Having broken the taboo of Wikipedia, lets make it even more iconoclastic and move on to YouTube. These is a lot of material on YouTube in the field of evolution and you can all look for yourselves if you want to explore further. Some is good science. Some is overtly atheistic and much is rooted in fundamentalist creationist theology. A good test for how you are getting on in this course will be how well you are able to critically analyze some of these vignettes, and make comment on where they depart from scientific observation and reasoning, and venture into speculation and conjecture
This is a link to some good videos on YouTube
This series of around 1 hour is presented by John Maynard Smith
I haven’t watched all of these yet, but many are very interesting. Some are very short too, so it doesn’t take much time out of your schedule top watch them. I am a visual learner anyhow, so it helps to see this stuff as much as possible!
I am really enjoying these lectures. Dr. Maynard Smith works very hard to present his thoughts and information in simplistic terms. Thank you for sharing this one.
The first video on the origin of life -made easy presents what we learned in class about clay and the first RNA in a fairly clear and entertaining way. This video series is slightly strange to me because its narrator is addressing Christians to help disprove science using scientific hypotheses.
I found this part strange too. I wondered if the intent was to be sarcastic rather than helpful? Still, it was a good overview despite the “weird” factor.