they are doing what darwin himself never imagined possible. he thought it would take geological aging in order to see evolution in action, that no mortal could see it. it turns out that we mortals can watch it and we can watch it on darwin's island. i love that. i just love that. and i have gone back twice now to visit the galapagos and many times to visit peter and rosemary grant. looking over their shoulders, i think it is wonderful that they are still doing this research, all of these years later. he never retired. officially they have retired, but unofficially, they are still there every year in the galapagos, watching evolution. >> host: we have been talking with jonathan weiner acclimate university. this is his most recent book. "the lonely soldier: the private war of women serving in"long fot booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or book title in the search box and click on search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking on share in the upper left side of the page and s

darwin.s. >> nude strols on the beach with darwin. cubs got inspiration with that. they beat the marlins, 12-1. we should point out while we're doing sports all next week, way too early comes to you live from london. london 2012 gets under way right now. the time difference, i will have the option and i will exercise the option of sleeping past 3:00 a.m. local time, which is why i'm going. >> coming up at the top of the hour, another show showing the race neck and neck with the president. despite all that's been thrown at mitt romney, he's still there. we'll break down the numbers with our morning crew in washington. >>> and when we come back, we'll have a meeting of minds between newt gingrich and snook. that's next. i've discovered gold. [ female announcer ] new roc® retinol correxion max. the power of roc® retinol is intensified with a serum. it's proven to be 4x better at smoothing lines and deep wrinkles than professional treatments. roc® max for maximum results. free streaming quotes, a

to biologist from princeton go to darwin's i land every year. since 1973 and they camp on a desert island that darwin never sought and they documented of militiamen inaction by natural selection. they see it and a measure it to with exquisite detail. doing what dar whenever it imagined and thought it would take geological ages. no mortal could but we can. we're watching. i have gone back twice to visit the of galapagos and to visit peter and rosemary. it is wonderful they still do the research. officially they retired but they are there every year. >>host: and talking to jonathan wiener with his most recent book long for this world. thank you very much. >> it is a pleasure.

despite darwin, the enlightenment, god has persisted. visible figure, not just in american life, but globally. where -- >> you know what i think is striking about that, the statistic you just put up there, if you look at the evolution of attitudes of evolution of god, you'll find the number is consistent with the number of with people who call themselves creationists. 46% people of people, god created man in his current form within last 10,000 years. the people who say they believe in god having some role, the number is actually down slightly. the number of people who flat out call themselves atheist is rising. you'll find more people -- >> the thing that i find really important about this study and linking god and science is that we turn to both religion and science to understand where we're going and neither has all the answers. when we have both, then we have a chance to get at most of th answers. but if we have one or the other, we're going to have massive gaps in our understanding of the whole universe. >> quick question to you on s

out there such a receive a subsidy that teaches kids that the loch ness monster debunks charles darwin's theory of evolution how the curriculum states because nesi exists and is also a dinosaur that somehow dinosaurs and humans have lived at the same time and therefore darwin was wrong i mean if you ask me that's pretty crazy it's bad enough the religious fundamentalists like hodges want public money to teach religious dogma but now we see at a taxpayers are going to fund the curricula of the teachers youngsters that nessie exists what's next we based on the state's unique take on logic it wouldn't be surprising to see louisiana fund a science class based on bigfoot right if they're passing off fiction as science why not in fact louisiana residents shouldn't be surprised if their children come home talking about a really interesting documentary that they saw at school. where their. job actually. yeah i'd say that it makes about as much sense to pass authorizing park as a documentary as it does to teach him it as fact or the movie even pass louisiana strict education requirements you see

>>gol de emilio lópez, darwin quintero aprovecha los nervios y empata el juego >>en el tecnologico, empataricanista >>burbano anotaba >>los panzas verdes escaparon con victoria dos por cero >>atlas y pumas empate a uno >>máquina azul y monarcas empatan sin goles >>mañana dueño hugo sánchez lavolpe. >>higashi anotaba. japón se queda con la victoria y queda preocupado luis fernando tenna >>vamos al béisbol chase udley castigaba. >>batazo a lo profundo que termina al otro lado de la barda >>gigantes se escapan con victoria seis carreras por cinco >>dodger extraordinaria tarde. cuadrangular, ocho carreras por cinco >>gigantes son líderes en el oeste de la lig naciónal >>padres estan a trece y medio, rockys están últimos >>atleticos en buena racha >>octava entrada batazo de brandon j. la pelota termina al otro lado de la barda, mañana buscarán barrer la serie. es todo, feliz noche para todos. >>sabemos que el cuerpo humano es un sistema biologico impresionante, pero sabía usted que el cuerpo tiene suficiente hierro como para crear un hierro tiene suficiente grasa para hacer siete pastillas de j

darwin makes up a three run homer 4-2 c.. anthony rizzo and there it goes again, three more.he inning. read johnson was taken out of the game, it looks like they got on the trading board. olympic medal board looks like this it's been a huge night for misty franklin the 17 year-old want gold. meant graver wins gold in the 100 backstroke. he did show up in boston harbor. a 64 hologram shows him diving into the water there. this is an all that newsworthy but it sure looks cool. they should do that right off of lake forest. congratulations. we invite you to stay tuned in to my investigator special coming up in a moment.

he likes taking long walks on the beach completely naked, number 15, darwin barney. batting gate. playing 3rd base, he likes to walk on the beach with darwin. [ laughter ] luis val bow 18a. [ laughter ] >> and i would have gone for. that they were calling out the lineup for the chicago cubs last night and had fun with the introductions. ferrell got to throw out the first pitch before the game and they must be good luck. they went on to winter marlins 5-1. >> they're always a riot. >> they are. >> and they open their mouths and they're funny. >> they are. >> and the trailer for the movie, the candidate or something like that. hilarious. >> that's right. >> and very funny, very funny. hot again out there. >> yeah. >> and rain is headed our way. >> probably between seven and 8, the western suburbs and eastern suburbs, 9, 10, 11:00 and they'll move on through. the main thing with them, they seem to have heavy rain with them and we're going to see the showers and storms firing up. i would be on guard that they coming and prepare for possibility of heavy rain. first up, looking at weath

here is another one from darwin.ares to was ten hours of time has probably discovered facebook." [ laughter ] that's definitely true. [ applause ] >> steve: that's true. >> jimmy: it's like a black hole. next quote is from e.l. james, author of "50 shades of grey." [ cheers ] she says, "my only dream was to see '50 shades of grey' in a book shop. the explosion of interest has taken me completely by surprise." here is another quote from e.l. james. she says, "i'm sure many of my readers had that their own explosions of interest. if you know what i mean." i don't know. i don't get that one. >> steve: what does she mean? >> jimmy: i don't know what she's talking -- >> steve: i don't know what she means. explosion of interest? >> jimmy: i don't know. last quote is from sophocles. he was an ancient greek playwright. he said, "a man growing old becomes a child again." here's another one here. he says, "except for the whole thing about having super saggy balls." [ laughter ] that's all the time we have for "don't quote me."

be on top of the system to be the final product of badly when we talk about evolution we talk of darwinism there was evolution and finally there was me as the final product but you say that the evolution is continuing and we're in the process so where are we heading what's the final goal on this planet if ever if we if men are not the final product so where are we. maybe man of. men who. force. one to control every man who. understand. how. the planet. to be a better place than what it is that means protect animals. warmer and everything else that's not your that's a big responsibility big time but it's part of it and that's why i think there's even more but speaking i feel sure you often say that humanity is evolving to more complexity but doesn't the rise of the pop culture and everything in music and in the end literature and pain and pain take in human relations doesn't it contradict your theory is the becoming more and more simplistic and pleasures are becoming more and more simplistic. they were always like that. it's been always like that and this constant struggle every generation

the australian prime minister met with the indonesian president in darwin. in the past two weeks, around 100 people drowned when two boats carrying suspected asylum seekers sunk. chinese authorities have agreed to halt the construction of a copper plant following protests over its environmental impact. photographs on the internet appear to show tens of thousands of people demonstrating against the plant in sichuan province. media reports in hong kong say it turned violent after protesters clashed with anti- riot police. joining me from beijing is the bbc's martin patien. nce. social networking seemed to play a key part in this protests. >> is certainly played a key part in the fact that we know about it. we've seen hundreds of these types of incidents across the country. i think what is significant about this protest was the scale of it. hong kong media is reporting that tens of thousands of people attended this protest. the reason they were protesting was against the construction of a plant. they were against the pollution. this is not the first time we've

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in australia marines celebrated with a barbecue in darwin and played softball with members of australia'scavalry. >> do you know who won? >> i don't know. >>> how are the storms doing? >> they are calming down. a lot of people scared now about storms moving in. after the derecho on friday and 1.5 million people that lost power any time we mention storms a lot of people are saying how strong are the storms? let me say this, we will not see another derecho like that maybe in our lifetime. there have been strong storms across the area. outside right now a look at the full moon or just about. this is a live shot out there around the american university campus. not a bad night out there right now. we saw things cool off in a few locations. but around the district still very, very warm out there. we need the wind to cool us off. the storm 4 radar showing you where the storms have been. we say hail reports up to 3/4 inch. we saw winds 60 to 70 miles an hour and trees down all along the path coming from western portions of maryland through frederick county, virginia. but now, they are pretty much

. >> was subject to -- when the river darwin crest their banks at the same time. and the emergency service working through the night and particularly what came out in the morning. and -- >> i join my hon. friend in praising emergency services. these were dangerous damaging floods. emergency services performed superbly. i will see that for myself. and the phase where people look at going back into their homes with all sorts of questions and i am sure he will make th o with all sorts of questions and i am sure he will make these arguments will do all they can. >> will the prime minister answer the question, the government actually borrowed 3.9 billion more than last year? >> what mr. jefferson left--the deficit is down by a quarter and the policy he supports is to spend more, to borrow more and to put the debt up further. fists >> 17-year-old was tragically stabbed to death in 2010. and a powerful force, challenging the culture by |-haring her experiences with young people in schools. like many groths to make an extraordinary contribution to challenging this culture

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just take a look at a sample of his legacy -- "darwin," "apes and angeles," "darwin's ark," "in the twelfthear of the war," "open doorways," and this, my favorite -- "summer love and surf," about the joys and wonders of loving and living. his latest book of poems is "perfidious proverbs." a fellow poet said that to watch philip appleman "sling words is to be richly regaled." i quite agree. welcome, philip. >> wonderful to be here, bill. >> i have long thought of poetry as music to be heard best in the voice of the composer. so let's go right to some of your poems. >> good. i love it. >> here's one of my favorites. and i think it's one of your favorites, too, "eve." tell me about that poem. >> twenty years ago, i published a book called "let there be light." it was a series of satires on various biblical stories. and eve being one of the first came out at the head of the list. and, shall i read it? >> please. >> eve is kind of reflecting on the snake, at first. clever he was, so slick he could weave words into sunshine. when he murmured another refrain of that shimmering promise, "you shall

and because in charles darwin's masterpiece, this is a tahitian masterpiece the last great piece he did and in the upper left hand corner, this philosophically inclined artist wrote, it is in drench but i will tell you what he said. >> rose: tell me what he said. >> he wrote up there, where do we come from? what are we? where are we going? he boldly asked the questions that philosophers long ago abandoned and which science now is left to try to answer. >> rose: you like the big questions, don't you? >> well, when you only have several years left of your life, ask them now or never. >> rose: social conquest of earth, edward o. wilson, e o. wilson of harvard. one of my favorites. >> rose: i am pleased to have dr. eric kandel back at this table where he comes frequently, welcome. >> nice of you to have me here. >> rose: the age of insight, why call it the age of insight? >> in the 1900 was a very special period, at the end of the 1900s in which our view of human kind was altered. before that, there was a view of human beings as being essentially rational creatures, specially created by god

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. >> a betbay ling second and taking long walks on the beach darwin -- >> having some fun.. the cub and the marlins, cubs down 1-0. 1t 4 in the seventh inning, soto chops one over the infield. the cg. cooperstown new york, finally making it in after pav ring away. ron cherin d the idea of joining his cub hall of fame teammates. >> he wanted to be in there with his teammates and other contemporaries of the bo 960s, roberto clemente willie mae maze chlt dar- mays. he would hfor the been thrilled to be included. >> we'll hfor the complete coverage of the entire hall of fame weekend. we bustin reports tomorrow and we'll have a half-hour special on sunday night at 9:by as the baseball hall of fame welcomes in number 10. in golf tiger woods tees off at 3:30 a.m. chicago time tomorrow as the britin open gets under way. the 70th minute scores for the red bulls. the only goal of the game. fire lose 1-0. he had won four out of the last s9. con ng in. finally the most courageous player of the mostar. bret lowrie of the blue jays goes after a foul ball. he dives tumbling over into the

the cubs got a three-run homer from darwin barney in the fourth inning. then..r fifth inning, including a three-run shot from anthony rizzo. the cubs beat the pirates in a rout.. 14 - 4. sox vs. twins at target field: the white sox started out great.. four runs in the first including a three-run homer from a.j. pierzynski. but they couldn't hold the lead. in the ninth, the twins' jamie carroll hit the winning sacrifice fly. sox lose to minnesota 7-6. but they're still in first place in the al central. highlights from the summer olympic games in london... lake forest's matt grevers sets an olympic record in the 100- meter backstroke and wins the gold medal. american nick thoman won the silver. 17-year old missy franklin sets an american record in the women's 100-meter backstroke and wins the gold. she won just 14 minutes after swimming a qualifying heat for another race! but, the big disappointment: the u.s. men's gymnastics team. they drop from first to fifth place and fail to medal. here's a breakdown of the medal count... china has won 19 medals, including 10

created in collaboration with the darwin project. and computer scientists.nd this is about letting people expeer yens science. >> in the new building this will be a large 5 inch table with lenses. >> and want owe explore the ocean? there is an app for that. a big app. richard hart, abc 7 news. >> coming up next, how you can help bay area foster children achieve dream autos and it's easy with a click. stay with us. >>> abc news is teeming up with sleep train that runs a campaign for foster kids and now, we're joining in that effort. how you can help, by using facebook but first a look at the needs of foster children. >> this 18-year-old was five years old when entering the foster care system. and he found what he calls a perfect family at 10. >> certain homes i was abused. >> he tried to hope for a better hive but it was hard. >> i remember when i entered foster care, like nobody loves me. nobody believes i can do anything. so why should i be able to do anything? >> now, with support of a stable family, his ambition soared and he's headed to uc santa barbara

one religious school set to receive a subsidy teaches kids of the lochness monster debunks charles darwin's theory of evolution so if you just keep looking at it the biology textbook actually says that the loch ness monster is real so could you guys imagine that this is a curriculum that she supports for the school so if you ask me i think of this lady as a little bit crazy we're going to have to come back to our time tonight because if you technical problems but first let's move on to our next story. our guys so earlier this week we spoke to you about two occupiers two activists in new york city who suddenly found their faces posted all over flyers in the thirty s thirtieth precinct in new york city so it turns out that what happened is that they were going around filming police performing stop and frisk searches in new york city and i guess the police didn't like that very much because then they put these posters all over the station in the thirtieth precinct and label them as professional agitators so what exactly did they do that was wrong well here's a little glimpse of the video that

marines in australia celebrated with a barbecue in darwin. they also played a game of softball with members of australia's second cavalry and they apparently were using metal bats. we wish they would use wooden ones, because it sounds better. >>> final touches are underway for the 2012 olympics in london. keith miller has a preview. >> reporter: 23 days to go and here in london they are even counting down the hours and the seconds. the olympic rings adorn tower bridge giving some idea how london's historic landmarks will enhance these games. the horse guard's parade which is basically the backyard to the prime minister's office will be the venue to beach volleyball. these olympics will turn the city into a giant party with big tv screens in hyde park for those who can't get tickets to the events. the only debate going on at the moment is security. the plan to place anti-aircraft missiles around the capital is being opposed, especially by residents of one high-rise apartment block which will get missiles placed on the roof. the operation to pr

tiniest creature at work in that tiny part of the world it was created in collaboration with the darwinroject at mit and science at davis. it reopens on pier 15 next year. >> it's about letting people experience the joy of science. >>reporter: this i hope take las vegas is the center piece of folk ounce real time interaction with the museum surrounding. >> in the new building it will be a very large 55 inch table with actual lenses. >>reporter: explore the ocean? now there's an' for that. really big happen with next step next more asian abc news. >> school. >> how you can help bay area foster children achieve their dreams and d [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: dinner...is...served. tonight, take it easy and enjoy your favorite soup, salad and hot, hearty sub. like the toasty big hot pastrami melt. get to your local subway for some dinnertime deliciousness tonight. subway. eat fresh. >> nasa is mourning the loss of one of the last shuttle commander. captain point dexter died yesterday in florida when the jet ski he was riding was hit from behind driven by his sochbilit