This video isn't new, but a friend posted the link to Facebook and it reminded me how great the video is. Dr. Kenneth Miller is a cell biologist who lectures on evolution and science education, and participated as an expert witness for the good guys at the Kitzmiller v. Dover School District trial. In this segment where he addresses a group of high school students, Miller does a masterful job of concisely summarizing the basics of evolutionary science, including a wonderful section where he demolishes the ID quackery of "irreducible complexity" using a mousetrap. I like his presentation so much I've used this clip in my college-level course on the evolution of life.

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Comment by j on December 27, 2008 at 5:50pm
I like it...good video(s). The Apologist would call it 'religious' only because they mis-use semantics...
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If asked which is superior, the true Christian will say Dogma precedes Evidence; the Scientist will say every idea is born, sustained and dies because Evidence is greatest... excuse the small rant.
Comment by Planetologist on December 27, 2008 at 6:39pm
I don't disagree. Miller is a little softer on religion than I would be... than I am, when directly asked. Religion - as in the organized belief in some form of the argument from authority, supernatural or not - doesn't address different issues from science... it doesn't address any issues of any kind. Science can address any question that addresses things that happen in reality, using evidence to test claims. Religion can't answer anything, because it's just made up ad hoc by its "leaders". Religion tests nothing, discovers nothing, helps nothing.

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