Michael Novacek
Michael Novacek
clearer conversion darwin hope respect science visitor
We respect people's beliefs, and conversion is not necessarily our goal. We hope that every visitor will have a clearer idea of what Darwin did and, for that matter, what science means.
adventurer darwin himself
Darwin himself was a really fascinating person, an adventurer as well as a scientist,
adapt bad bird chicken concept contact flu human humans maybe point species switch system theory transfer worry
We know that you can only get avian flu from getting in contact with a chicken or a bird species with it. That's bad enough. We don't transfer it from one human to another, which is really bad! But from the infective agent's point of view, the virus' point of view, its going to say 'to be more adaptive, maybe I'll switch hosts, and I'll adapt to a system where humans are transferring to each other.' We wouldn't even have a concept of that or a worry of that without Darwin's theory of evolution.
issue people raised
We didn't think the issue would be as white-hot as it is right now. It kind of raised the ante for us. My sense was, let's make this show good, because people really want to see it. They need it.