Hutton's Hypothesis

The Human genome project took 13 years to complete. Hundreds of scientists from all over the world were involved. What's just as amazing as the completion of the project is the story that it tells whe...

9 Mar 201512min

How do we date fossils? There are a few ways and in this episode we will look at a couple.

2 Mar 201512min

Robert Chambers' masterpiece was titled 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'. In it he explained how everything evolved. Everything from simple, less complex forms, to more complex forms over...

23 Feb 201518min

Patrick Matthew published 'On Naval Timber and Arboriculture' in 1831. There were a few positive reviews but they were somewhat tepid in their praise. Only a couple reviewers happened to notice someth...

16 Feb 201518min

William Charles Wells, in no uncertain terms, pointed out that mankind is not immune to nature's ability to modify an organism's features over time.

9 Feb 201512min

Jean Baptiste Lamarck's mechanism for evolution was wrong, as history shows, and that fact has haunted his memory ever since. But ideas and theories have ways of being resurrected and, in recent years...

2 Feb 201518min

Erasmus was a country physician. He believed that women should have access to the same education that men did, and that slavery should be abolished. He also believed that life evolved from a single fi...

26 Jan 201516min