| 1. The Evolution of Our
Universe - from the Big Bang to the present, including
the appearance of life on Earth. |
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| 2. The Theory of
Biological Evolution
- presenting the wealth of evidence that supports the theory. |
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| 3. Human Evolution
- as determined by the latest fossil and genetic evidence. |
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| 4.
The DNA Revolution - the latest revolutionary advances
in DNA research and gene editing, and the many ethical issues
that result from them. |
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| 5. Living in the
Anthropocene - the ways in which humans have impacted
the planet... an impact so profound that it warrants being
labelled as a whole new geological era - the Anthropocene. |
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| 6. Putting Alternative
Medicine to the Test - why science uses the Clinical
Trial to determine which medicines actually work, and how
Alternative Medicine fares when subjected to this test. |
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| 7. A Brief History of
Astronomy
- how different cultures have sought to measure and explain the
movements of the heavens. |
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| 8. Science Myths and
Misconceptions - examining a range of commonly held
science-based myths, identifying their possible origins and the
reasons they persist in spite of contrary scientific evidence. |
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| 9. The History of
Time-Keeping Devices - exploring the long history
of attempts to measure the passing of time, from ancient
sundials to atomic clocks, explaining how all of these different
devices work. |
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| 10. The James Webb Space Telescope - The design, deployment and operation of Hubble's successor, the JWST, and the science behind its fabulous early images. |
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| 11. The Science of Religion - Examining theories and evidence, from evolution and the cognitive sciences, that seek to explain the experience of religious belief as a purely naturalistic phenomenon, originating entirely in the human brain. |
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