Genius of Britain Episode 2 (Part 4/5) HD

Ғылым және технология

"In this new five-part series, leading scientific figures - Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Paul Nurse, Jim Al-Khalili, Kathy Sykes and Olivia Judson - celebrate the British scientists and inventors who literally created the modern world. The second programme in the series looks at the scientific spark that ignited the Industrial Revolution in Britain. James Dyson tells the story of how a young James Watt was inspired to perfect the steam engine that would change the world forever. Jim Al-Khalili explains how Joseph Priestley, a clergyman with a fascination for gases, discovered the very air we breathe and started a craze for soda water. David Attenborough talks about his hero Joseph Banks, the great naturalist who sailed to the South Seas and founded Kew Gardens on his return. And Robert Winston reveals the extraordinary story of John Hunter, surgeon, anatomist... and body-snatcher."
(Part 2 of 5)

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  • @Sethrezin
    @Sethrezin13 жыл бұрын

    thanks for sharing this! I am loving every second of it! Scientific knowledge is always a point of interest!

  • @scandowegianpean
    @scandowegianpean12 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much for sharing this wonderful series!!

  • @lamalord2008
    @lamalord200813 жыл бұрын

    @thechessstick: What I find sad, really, is that after seeing this mind-blowing explanation on the progress made by amazing thinkers on explaining the awe inspiring world around us, you continue to limit your horizons by putting mindless faith before exploration. Please try to open your mind to the limitless world around you, it’s bigger than you realise.

  • @user-ls8ks7kv8c

    @user-ls8ks7kv8c

    Жыл бұрын

    Newton would be termed by you guys as a "religious nutjob" but that didn't limit his horizons

  • @proprodigySD
    @proprodigySD12 жыл бұрын

    Lol, Priestly's greatest discovery wasn't soda water?! Oh, oxygen. Pfft.

  • @proprodigySD
    @proprodigySD12 жыл бұрын

    @thechessstick Men who never admit they're wrong? Real men have the courage to say they don't know, the wisdom to abandon convictions that prove false, and the fortitude to carry on investigating. Real men think.

  • @TheBardicDruid
    @TheBardicDruid12 жыл бұрын

    @thechessstick "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet." --- Napoleon Bonaparte

  • @thechessstick
    @thechessstick12 жыл бұрын

    @TheSobek "For by Him do all things consist". and "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom". Study and learn.

  • @thechessstick
    @thechessstick12 жыл бұрын

    @TheBardicDruid Fail

  • @thechessstick
    @thechessstick13 жыл бұрын

    I can see that they have mixed in a few genuine geniuses like Newton with a few pseudo-geniuses like Dawkins, Hawking, Darwin and probably Sagan. Sad, how these pseudo-scientists are included simply because they attack God.

  • @TheBardicDruid
    @TheBardicDruid12 жыл бұрын

    @thechessstick I did study and learn, and god doesn't exist.

  • @user-ls8ks7kv8c

    @user-ls8ks7kv8c

    Жыл бұрын

    So you believe this all came about completely randomly like magic? If I were to walk in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, would the sand and oil and other materials ever randomly come together to make an iphone? Even if you waited 100 trillion years, that would never happen, which shows how absurd and full of logical leaps atheism is

  • @TheBardicDruid

    @TheBardicDruid

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-ls8ks7kv8c Natural Selection is not random.

  • @user-ls8ks7kv8c

    @user-ls8ks7kv8c

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheBardicDruid Of course it is, otherwise it would be intelligent and purposeful. Natural selection is basically random genetic mutations occurring (like green eyes or an extra arm) and if those random mutations help an animal breed more, then those mutations spread and if the random mutations inhibit an animal from spreading its seed, then the mutation eventually dies out. It's not like a small-necked giraffe told its DNA that it needs to grow a longer neck in order to reach more food; your theory says that those genetic mutations just simply randomly happened and that giraffes being able to eat more food helped preserve it as a species and those the longed-neck genetic mutation stayed. Of course, the problem with the theory of evolution is that there are multiple animals preserved in amber that are tens of millions of years old and yet they look EXACTLY like their modern equivalent. How can you explain that it takes a few million years for a species to evolve into a different animal and yet there is a spider and a wasp preserved in amber that is like 100 million years old?? In A HUNDRED MILLION YEARS there weren't enough random mutations to transform the spider and wasp into different animals?

  • @TheBardicDruid

    @TheBardicDruid

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-ls8ks7kv8c Wow, you know nothing about random selection or evolution, so everything you say is from ignorance.

  • @user-ls8ks7kv8c

    @user-ls8ks7kv8c

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheBardicDruid Then do feel free to enlighten me on what I got wrong

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