Break the Science Barrier

Richard Dawkins, Douglas Adams, David Attenborough, Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Break the Science Barrier (English for: Break through the science block) is a British television documentary, which was published in 1996 by Richard Dawkins. Dawkins also as an interviewer and narrator through the film. He advocates to put a stronger focus on scientific training and to view science as a mental stimulant. The first trip takes them to the southern United States, called the Deep South. There rejects a majority from the evolution theory of Charles Darwin and represents an opinion that is more representative of the young-earth creationists. Dawkins mentions the Alabama insert a provision of the state Alabama which prescribed a warning in biology textbooks that read: The theory of evolution is controversial and will only representatives of some scientists. No one was present when life on Earth was formed, therefore, everything that relates to the origin of life, be viewed as a theory and not a fact .. Dawkins is the former Governor Fob James of Alabama, in 1995 at a meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education mimics the response of a prehistoric man in order to make fun of the prevailing doctrine in science .. Fob James also said that the one who wanted to know where the man come in the first book of the Bible, called Genesis, should read. Dawkins protested and replied that any serious scientist represent the theory of evolution.

But Dawkins also emphasizes that one should make a Briton not generally about the American " cousins ​​" funny. Even in the UK there would be ignorant. A British scientist told Dawkins that some of his students would not even know the most essential scientific principles, such as the connection between the web and rotates to the son day and night to earth. He then interviewed the British astronomer Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the neutron star along with Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle. So our idea was revolutionized by the universe. Dawkins speaks of a true anti- scientific movement. Expression of this attitude are, for example, the boom of astrologers and healers. This was followed by a conversation with Sir Alec Jeffreys John, who discovered the genetic fingerprint. Then Dawkins illustrates the importance of science for a better life and visited a Briton who was wrongly convicted of murder. A scientific opinion on the DNA at the crime scene eventually rescued him and obtained an acquittal. Dawkins meets with his friend Douglas Adams, British writer who became famous for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This describes his passion for science. At the end of the film Dawkins attends a school class and illustrates them the age of the earth.

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