Well the video DOES completely neglect the roles of mutation and natural selection, so what we're left with is animals sprouting limbs for no discernable reason. Maybe I've been watching that potholer fellow too much lately, but if a guy with a British accent is going to tell me about speciation, he damn well better mention beneficial and deleterious mutations at least in passing.

Yes, sadly, it neglects a lot of things - but it's a 5 and a half minute video. This is to evolution as the "birds and the bees" talk is to sexual reproduction: you don't have to mention meiosis to tell a child where babies come from.

For that matter, in most of Attenborough's more recent work, detailed explanations take a back seat to his efforts to share with us a feeling of wonder and awe towards our planet and the stuff that lives on it. And I dig that.

What confuses them is that their position CAN be fully summarized in 2-3 minutes, so they feel that trumps anything that takes several months to summarize, because who has that kind of time?

They evolved from seaweeds that washed ashore and decided to grow roots.

it's a 5 minute summary

Yeah cool comments

"Your primordial God does not exist .....you should be worship being a jar of peanut butter because that's your imaginary God.. your evolutionary view is sad with out hope without evidence. Just speculation, and theory."

"No human has ever been able to make a cell other than on paper. So evolution is not scientific theory it's a religion. Forget the cell just create a mitochondria with rhizomes. Or just make a double helix.. surely you can create the enzyme used in mitosis. Just say primordial soup and you can skip all this."

a friend of mine contributes to research for a cure for alzheimer's by directly genetically modifying mice in a lab, so they can later be tested. you inject the right stuff, and they respond in predictable ways, forgetting to feed, eating children they no longer recognize, and so on.

Primordial god is cool sounding.

Much better than a fake zombie god, anyway!