The Day the Universe Changed
Season 1 Episode 8 - Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
8.7 ?
1985
Documentary
Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing sciences of botany, geology, and biology to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Darwin’s theory, in turn, has been used as a justification for Nazism, communism, and cut-throat capitalism.
Episodes in Season 1
1
The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
45 min
2
In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
45 min
3
Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
45 min
4
A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
45 min
5
Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
45 min
6
Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
45 min
7
What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
45 min
8
Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
45 min
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Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised
45 min
10
Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality
45 min