The Blind Watch Maker (1987)
DVDRip | English | AVI/XVID 29.970 fps 891 Kbps | 480x352 | PCM 1024 Kbps 32.0 khz | 47mn 35s | 656 MB
Genre: Documentary
DVDRip | English | AVI/XVID 29.970 fps 891 Kbps | 480x352 | PCM 1024 Kbps 32.0 khz | 47mn 35s | 656 MB
Genre: Documentary
Another Richard Dawkins presentation based on one of his books (which won the Royal Society of Literature Award). In the programme, he refutes the claims of creationists that Darwinism cannot be credible because blind chance alone would not produce the complexity of organisms as they exist. "The Blind Watchmaker" creationist argument was coined by Rev. William Paley (1743-1805) 50 years before Darwin's theory of evolution. Dawkins demonstrates how the eye could have evolved in stages, each simple and a result of random variation, but connected by a natural selection of those organisms which become more successful. In the early stages even with an incomplete eye, the benefit of even partial vision discriminating only between light and dark would be more useful than no vision. The structure of the surface of the "new" (in 1987) optical storage disc is related to the structure of the eye of the moth. A computer program produces generations of biomorphs using incremental random variation.
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Complete name : Horizon - The Blind Watch Maker (Richard Dawkins,1987).avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 656 MiB
Duration : 47mn 35s
Overall bit rate : 1 926 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2439/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2439/release
Video
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Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 47mn 35s
Bit rate : 891 Kbps
Width : 480 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.176
Stream size : 303 MiB (46%)
Writing library : XviD 1.0.3 (UTC 2004-12-20)
Audio
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Format : PCM
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Duration : 47mn 35s
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Bit rate : 1 024 Kbps
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Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 349 MiB (53%)
Interleave, duration : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
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