WEEK #3

Post #1 Survival of the Sufficient
The film is pretty funny. The monkey in this film i think makes up for the boring commontary. This metaphors that he uses was pretty on point and understandable. We usually use the phrase, "survival of the fittess" to explain that the ones who usually are well adapted and well trained are the ones who survive in nature. This short film suggests that we should use survival of the "sufficient" instead. Instead of saying natural selection, we can say natural editing. We are constantly being edited in our daily life by friends, family, peers, teachers, co-workers, etc. This is a certain metaphor that he uses. If we remain, we've been edited to some degree. We live on earth as writers and editors around us are constanlty editing. Decpetion is natures method of making sure each individual in each individual species have enough room to sucessfully survive. Nature use decption to edit. I didnt quite get the editing part of this film, until i kept playing back the line where he says that deception is natures way for individuals to sucessfully survive. I then thought about how and what we do in our daily lives to survive and it kind of made more sense after that.

Post #2 Truth Lies
I liked this video. One of the lines that i found funny and understanable was when the narrator said something about we don't know the truth we just know enough to not get eaten too young. This film says that our brain are not meant to understand the universe, we are only on earth long enough to eat the ecosystem and reproduce. He also quotes some body esle, something about how we can't live without a purpose and we eventually have to create a God. This i find yet to be somewhat true. Living life would be hard if we didn't have a purpose. But life would be harder if we knew the truth. What was really confusing was towards the end of the film where the narrator states that we can't handle the truth. Then it says that the world just lies to us to make its seem as if it is the truth. It ends the film with it saying the the truth lies. Its really confusing but for some reason it kind of makes sense. Really weird topic.

Post #3 Fundamentalism as a mental disease
I don't really see Fundamentalism as a mental disease. People live lives and make choices along the way, why should i be able able to tell them what and what not to do. People choose their own religion and i don't see any wrong in doing so. Everyone has their own choice on how they want to live their lives. There are so many choices to choose from. The beginning of this film they say that Creationists realize talking about God and The Bible, just dosen't work when it comes down to science. So they had to dress him up with some drapes. I think that "Fundamentalism as a Mental Disease" is some what true. A person may be read and take in The Bible on his/her own or some are taught about it. I think a part of this could be how a person was raised.

Post #4 Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins wanted to show us the different perspectives and opinions others have on science. There was one part of the film where everyone laughed at supposedly a joke that he made. "Everytime you drink a glass of water, at least one molecule has passed through the bladder of Oliver Cromwell". He talks about the quantum theory and how there are many versions of this theory. He gives an introduction of each of them and then he gets into detail which each versions of it. Dawkins pokes and makes fun of people who are too stubborn to think that they can't be wrong when they make a theory and eveyone believes in it. Throughout this video he makes a joke here and there. One of which i remembered was when he used Albert Stubblin in his joke where he said he thinks he can go through a wall since he is made of atoms too. Richard Dawkins is really smart and funny. His lecture was more entertaining than boring.

Post #5 Evolution
The basic definition of evolution is descent with modification. Biological evolution is not just a change over time. Alot of things change over time like for example trees. Their leaves change color and fall as the season changes but they don't involve descent from genetic inheritance. The theory of evolution is that every thing on earth shares and ancestor. Evolution just means we are all cousins, trees, mammals, sea shell, etc. We all are distant cousins of each other. There are many questions about evoultion that can't be fully answered but we have evidence for it. Does evolution occur in rapid bursts or gradually? What would we observe in fossils if evolution was slow and steady? If evolution it was slow and steady we would expect to see the whole transition from ancestor to descendent, displayed as transitional forms over a long period of time. The theory of evolution is that life has a history. It has changed over time and different species share the same traits of one and another. Natural selection is one of the basic mechanisms of evolution. Darwin's idea of evolution by natural selection is simple but sometimes misunderstood. Adaption is also a mechanism for evolution. Sometimes a specie has to adapt to its enviroment for the simple purpose of food and survival. They might change their way of eating of their defense from pretators. Sometimes they might change their whole outlook and eventually evovle into a different species.

Mini Book Selection "Evolve"
This mini book by charles darwin was really confusing. But to go off of what i have read and what ive tried to understamd is this book explains the steps and theory of evolution. Everything on this earth has an ancestor that we have evolved from over time. Evolution is a long term process instead of a short term. The assigned reading that we've done relates to this book of Darwin's. He says that evolution is nor physical or climatic in the sense that something is changed through physically. He talks about something with apperance of a person and how a man goes off by nature. Hawks have very good eye sight. The ancestors of hawks must've adapted to their surroundings with their eye sight since they are always above in the sky and need to look downwards at there prey. I personally didn't enjoy reading this. Maybe because it was very difficult for me to read, and i had to re-read certain phrase and lines.

Magazine Selection "Naturally Selected"
Naturally Selected by Darwin has an autobiography of his life. He explains that he has never earned his own "bread", meaning money. His dad payed for his education at school and for everything esle. Darwin was attracted to nature and first learned that nature had an interest for him when he started learning about bugs and plants. He read alot of literature by was very interested in shakespere. This was very interesting to read. I think alot of autobiographys are interesting to read. I think the fact that his dad was paying for his schooling and then being involve in learing about nature with beatles is very interesting.