When Isaac Newton looked back over his amazing career as a scientist, he said that he just felt like a boy playing on the sea-shore, finding pebbles and shells, when a whole ocean lay before him. Every scientist is very willing to recognise that there is still a lot to be discovered in science. The same is true of Darwin. The big thing he knew very little about was actually very, very tiny—it’s the living cell. And the big question we are going to address in this program is: “How did life begin?”

As soon as you hear the name “Darwin”, it’s likely that you will know who he is and think of pictures of the HMS Beagle, the Galapagos Islands, finch beaks, and that very well-known picture of a line-up of monkeys slowly standing up and gradually becoming a human being. But sometimes people don’t really know what Darwin’s theory actual was. In this program, we’ll look at what it was really about.

The question of where life originally came from intrigues everyone, no matter whether you are a 7-year-old girl or a distinguished professor. However, there are a variety of different theories about how life came about. In this series, we are will explore the biggest theory in the world today—Evolution! Is it even possible? Join us as we discover the answer to this question.