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Beyond Darwin The Galapagos are dots of land on a vast Pacific From the 1600s on they were a lonely stopping place for pirate vessels and ships drifting off course Now, instead of a place you get to by accident or bad luck the Galapagos are a magnet for travelers and especially scientists attracted by the chance for dramatic discoveries It’s silly to think age of discovery is over Never by over going going going with all kind of new thing I can’t wait to be old and gray and come back here and have some new person tell me how wrong I was Be no problem, be fun In 1835 these humble unknown islands were visited by a humble unknown scientist, (more…)

Laura Okmin, spent only three weeks ashore in the Galapago visiting four of the 16 islands He took notes and filled his bag with specimens Then he left He may have had inklings of evolution but he didn’t see the light Understanding what he’s seen… and working out a theory explaining it… took a quarter of a century It’s one of the great sagas in the history of science Darwin’s theory of e volution shook not only the scientific but also the religious and social foundations of the western-world The reverberations of Darwin’s theory are still felt today felt with a passion It’s the passion of Fundamentalist religion raging against Darwin… insisting on a Biblical version of creation It’s also the passion of scientist who believe that Darwin opened new worlds of knowledge… who build on his insights in an on-going process of science… who regard such fundamental evolutionary principles as natural selection as an unshakable premise of their work You know, the irony of all this is that here we are on a very very modern ship - in fact with the Discovery program we’ve had e-mail and one of the first e-mails we got we someone asking the question, “Does you experience in Galapagos change your view about that controversial theory of natural selection?” My response was “Madam, it’s not controversial and it’s not a theory it’s a fact.” Laura Okmin.

ln the holiest shrine of the ancient Egyptian capital, Solon was shown records of unsurpassed antiquity the secrets of a long-lost age when a civilization of incomparable power and prestige had dominated the world nine thousand years before. The empire of Atlantis. The description the Egyptian priest gave to Solon of this mighty vanished civilization is the starting point for every search ever undertaken to find Atlantis.
A description which Plato says: ” has the great advantage of being a fact and not a fiction.” Atlantis was said to lie beyond the Pillars of Hercules outside the Mediterranean Sea in an ocean we now call the Atlantic. Plato was very, very specific about where Atlantis was and what size it was and he described it as being larger than the continents of Africa and Asia put together and he located it very carefully outside the Pillars of Hercules. (more…)

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Pyramid becomes Noah’s Ark the Temple of Artemis becomes the Temple of Solomon. Look, there is something else very interesting in this tapestry here. These poor workers that made these things in Brussels really had to follow these grand designs. But in the borders, they were allowed to do their own thing. And these guys in their little dark workshops were thinking about the Seven Wonders of the World. Not the grand vision, the little common ordinary visions. And say you get up there, another of the gothic Seven Wonders, the magic bird the phoenix that builds its funeral pyre and is lit by the sun. And as it burns to death it rises in resurrection as an image of Jesus Christ. And there is another very local wonder here too. And that is a little hot spring by the french town of Grenoble. Very wonderful to have warm water without having to heat it. Now, Heemskerkjust did not do Seven Wonders, he did eight. And the eighth was his beloved Coliseum in Rome. The only one of the wonders he actually would have seen There it is. And look what is standing in the middle. In the Middle Ages it was thought that the Colossus of Rhodes had actually been taken to Rome and stored in the middle of the c oliseum which was a great temple of the sun. So there is the statue, standing now in the middle of a wonderful Gothic landscape with millions of people enjoying the games. You see, what Heemskerk did, he brought the Seven Wonders alive and he put them back onto the stage of history. Piro Ligorio actually got to build a model of his Rome and all its wonders too here in the magical gardens of Carlo d’ Este at Tivoli outside Rome. Sad to say, there is not much left of Piro’s Rome today. Enough though to see something of a dream. For four hundred years Tivoli has been one of the West’s most influential gardens. From here, the ghosts of wonder have seeped into the West. When it was new, before the great trees grew up, Piro’s design was overwhelming. It began with the Biblical Deluge a single massive waterfall running down the hill. The hill greater even than Babylon’s great hanging gardens. Piro’s garden, in fact is nothing more or less than a huge model of the universe. A cosmos with echoes of the ancient wonders. Piro’s model Rome stood for civilization. (more…)

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The Great Colossus of Rhodes astride the harbor. Actually, it was not Heemskerk’s idea, that figure. What happened was a traveler went to Rhodes heard a local story put a drawing of it in a geography book. The Heemskerks pinched the drawing which was just of this figure but he set it in this wonderful magical landscape and he is telling the story of the Colossus. See what is going on, there is an Arab raid. See those little boats going in with Christian galley slaves pulling away? There is the local people praying to the Colossus for help. And here is the Arab workmen demolishing the great face of the statue. So he is really bringing the Seven Wonders alive, you might say. This one, well this brings it along in a different sort of way. Tells another story. Not the destruction of one of the wonders, but actually its building. You see, there is the Great Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. There is the goddess suitably clothed in northern style. And there is the master masons all chipping away and making the columns. Now this is where this one gets a bit interesting because this column here actually fits beside the doorway. And this guy here is said by some to be King Solomon and this is the building of Solomon’s Temple. See what happened in Medieval times was that the Seven Wonders were pagan were taken over by another set of wonders. So the Pyramid becomes Noah’s Ark the Temple of Artemis becomes the Temple of Solomon. Look, there is something else very interesting in this tapestry here. These poor workers that made these things in Brussels really had to follow these grand designs. But in the borders, they were allowed to do their own thing. And these guys in their little dark workshops were thinking about the Seven Wonders of the World. Not the grand vision, the little common ordinary visions. And say you get up there, another of the gothic Seven Wonders, the magic bird the phoenix that builds its funeral pyre and is lit by the sun. And as it burns to death it rises in resurrection as an image of Jesus Christ. And there is another very local wonder here too. And that is a little hot spring by the french town of Grenoble. Very wonderful to have warm water without having to heat it.

Like the ancient Greeks though Itsen was still in the business of making beautiful, wonderful shapes. Nowadays though, the very nature of wonder is changing. It is not the hardware anymore, it is not the buildings it is the software that designs them. It is not great statues anymore. It is the pill. It is the telephone. The thing that joins all the buildings in the world not just one building. It is process and that you know in a strange way takes us right back to the beginnings of modern civilization. Back to the beginnings of wonder and the Pyramids of Egypt.

Process is what you are looking at here. The Egyptian Pyramids are not just amazing monuments but the residue of a process that impoverished an entire nation. Thousands upon thousands of people, laboring for decade after decade. They made the sole surviving Ancient Wonder. The oldest too. Of all the Ancient Wonders the Pyramids are the only one on everybody’s all time list of wonders. This then is where it all started. (more…)

Chimps have been known to kill and devour infant chimps from rival groups even when other foods are plentiful. While the cause of cannibalism among the chimps remains unknown, their kind has gained a grim reputation for brutal acts of predation. In some parts of their range, hunting parties of adult male chimps stalk and kill the smaller monkeys who share their forest home. Herded into an ambush by the hunters, the monkeys flee for their lives.

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