by commonagenet

March 11, 2010

(Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK.)

from YouTube Website

Richard Dawkins is Oxford University's "Professor for the Public Understanding of Science."

Author of the landmark 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, he's a brilliant (and trenchant) evangelist for Darwin's ideas.

In this talk, titled, "Queerer Than We Suppose - The strangeness of science," he suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved only to understand the "middle-sized" world we can observe.