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Like a rooster's crow, it jerked bleary-eyed Canadians out of bed on Sunday mornings. From 9 a.m. to noon each Sunday for 20 years, beginning in 1976, Sunday Morning brought listeners a week in the life of the world. Its incisive documentaries, broad foreign affairs coverage and satirical commentary anointed Sunday Morning as CBC Radio's flagship program. Billed as a “Sunday New York Times” by producer Mark Starowicz, its 1.5 million listeners outnumbered Times readers at the show's peak in the late 1970s. Hosts included Bronwyn Drainie with co-hosts Bruce Rogers, Warner Troyer and Patrick Martin, Barbara Smith, Linden MacIntyre, Mary Lou Finlay and Ian Brown.

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Darwin debunked?

Broadcast Date: Sept. 22, 1996

The theory of evolution has support from most secular scientists, but in this 1996 clip, the dissenting minority have their say. Biochemist Michael Behe has some strong criticism for Darwin's ideas. But he isn't a creationist either; he believes the Earth is millions of years old and that species probably have changed over time. Another secular critic joins Behe in arguing that evolution and natural selection just aren't good enough explanations for the development of life.

Darwin debunked?

•The word "evolution" appears only once in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. In that work, Darwin preferred the term "descent with modification."

• "Evolution" derives from the Latin word evolvere, which means "to unroll." Along those lines, the word "evolve" came to mean "to unroll" or "to expand."

• As host Ian Brown mentions, many critics of Darwinian evolution argue that an organ as complex as the human eye could not have evolved by chance. Darwin himself was very candid about that point; In the Origin Of Species he wrote, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selections, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree."

• Anti-evolutionists often use this quote against Darwin, but only by using it out of context. The rest of that paragraph discusses the possible evolution of an eye and essentially says that just because something seems absurd does not mean it is not possible.

Darwin debunked?

Medium: Radio

Program: Sunday Morning

Broadcast Date: Sept. 22, 1996

Guest(s): Michael Behe, David Berlinski

Host: Ian Brown

Duration: 22:19

Photo: Herval, used under Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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