The drawing in Minute 14 is not by Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) but by Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). Karl Ernst von Baer, however, was the one who didn't label his bottled embryos.

Fantastic thanks for your time

Feel free to argue with ideas from 120 years ago. No biologist has agreed with Haeckel's drawings or ideas for decades, lest they be uneducated! The fact is that evolutionarily linked species share common features early in EMBRYONIC development.

yeah, I am in the same boat. I try to keep an open mind...

@42:50 in or so, I noticed an interesting trend relating to Sociology. "Steamboat Willie" was essentially a black-face character. Over time, as with Italians, Irish, and Polish people, the concept of Whiteness was extended to them, and Mickey (and Goofy) became a White guy with black hair. Who knows what he is now, but I found it interesting that, just as White society expands its concept of Whiteness to become ever more inclusive, Mickey Mouse went from being an obvious stereotype of what Whites imagined Black people to be like, to becoming White. The more beloved a character became, the Whiter they became, both in appearance, and in their portrayals of actions and motives, relating to stereotypes.

Fruit flies piss me off. Someone in a lab on the same floor as mine does work with them. Heaven help the person that's eating an apple or orange. Interesting video, although not what I was looking for, I was hoping for more info on the homeobox. There's not much on it this gene sequence, at least in terms of lectures.

@mayartay The basic features of processes are shared even if they differ in details. Look at the diversity of life especially bacteria and you'll see it's possible to do things a lot simpler than we do.

@Mayartay Behe and his arguments that were detailed in Darwins black box were beaten down badly when they were brought to court in Dover. In addition his views have not survived peer review.

Hox genes are epigentically and genetically regulated during development - as Nova website for Ghost in your genes "Not all switches are epigenetic. As this slide show reveals, some are genetic-and amazingly powerful". See articles that explain the Hox mechanism www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetic-mice.html www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/gene-switches.html

And yes, the mathematics DO ADD UP, when you take into account all relevant factors, like mutation, plasmid transfer (bacteria), sexual recombination, and simply using the same old genes in new ways...see the work of Sean Carroll. All of course via natural selection.

@mayartay Ignorant of what exactly? Any teaching to a general audience is going to involve simplified examples. If he left it at "life is like a watch" and didn't go further fine, but he elaborated on the molecular genetics of it later. Starting off with a simple comparison between things that are similar in the relevant details seems fine.

this is pretty ham

I used to believe the world and all of life was created in 6 days . . . but now I am not so sure.

@mayartay He hardly mentions evolution. He shows photographs of developmental genetics experiments showing how shared and simple it is. That you think n.s. can be added to "chance" in brackets like it isn't the main focus of evolution shows your using the same 'selective emphasis' you accuse 'Darwinists' of. Just because you have a "purpose," doesn't mean 'Darwinists' do. I smell projection.

@MrHennessy1303 yeap (n)

@rapton Yeah Behe isn't even really a legitimate scientist, church funding is the only reason he has any kind of recognition.

My grandfather was a Presbyterian minister and he believed in evolution. He often said science tells you how and the Bible tells you Who.

he says "uh/um" a lot :/

Too bad evolution isn't true for Humans. We were created in "his" image.

coz he is "lying" a lot.