Darwin Day 2015 Questions: #2 Is Evolution a Fact?
Richard Dawkins answers your questions about evolution in honor of Darwin Day 2015. "...it isn't a theory that the earth moves around the sun it's a fact we can observe, evolution is...
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(Music playing) Richard Dawkins: I had said that evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth orbits the sun. And somebody wrote in about that saying "it isn't a theory the earth moves around the sun, it's a fact we can observe, evolution is not." I see why he says that, because you sort of think 'well, the earth is moving around the sun all the time and therefore you can observe it, whereas you can't actually observe evolution cause it happened a long time ago', well mostly it did. But really you can't observe that the earth moves around the sun. What you observe is the changing seasons, and you infer that the earth moves around the sun because you have an interpretation, you have a theory t...
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(Music playing) Richard Dawkins: I had said that evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth orbits the sun. And somebody wrote in about that saying "it isn't a theory the earth moves around the sun, it's a fact we can observe, evolution is not." I see why he says that, because you sort of think 'well, the earth is moving around the sun all the time and therefore you can observe it, whereas you can't actually observe evolution cause it happened a long time ago', well mostly it did. But really you can't observe that the earth moves around the sun. What you observe is the changing seasons, and you infer that the earth moves around the sun because you have an interpretation, you have a theory t...
