VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|HarryR|DATE|1359550009|CONTENT|Caught the Wonders of Life by accident. There seems to be a patch of excellence on TV at the mo. I also happened upon a prog about Innovation a few days ago. Have I just been bizarrely lucky to turn on at the right moment and be on the right channel?

WoL was interesting because Brian Cox didn&#039;t always have an inane grin on his face and the use of a physicist to present a programme essentially about biology offered a new perspective and the talk of energy gradients, natural fuel cells and how life ( as in some kind of self replicating compound) could&#039;ve developed was explained extremely well and hinted that self-replicating compounds might be common throughout the Universe simply as a consequence of physical laws.

Clearly Das understood nothing and seems to be asserting the same view spread by the most obtuse commercial creationists of the bible belt, that evolution claims that life - including human life - simply arose complete and functioning by a random getting together of chemicals in a combination that just happened to work right first time and has since remained unchanged.

He even included the word &#039;arrogance&#039; to warn off suggestions that theories based on an accumulation of scientific evidence should have any greater weight than a tradition of imaginative gap filling and social control.

How much longer can the BBC justify having someone spout unchallenged nonsense outside of a clearly flagged religious programme? Or, in the beeb&#039;s, case not actually bother to justify unless that has changed.|IP-ADDRESS|92.40.253.7|MODERATIONFLAG|