Nature Isn't Positive In That Way. It

Now, I Find That Very Difficult To Reconcile With Notions About A Merciful God.

The Most Extraordinary Thing About Trying To Piece Together The Missing Links In The Evolutionary Story Is That When You Do Find A Missing Link And Put It In The Story, You Suddenly Need All These Other Missing Links To Connect To The New Discovery. The Gaps And Questions Actually Increase - It's Extraordinary.

At A Time When It's Possible For Thirty People To Stand On The Top Of Everest In One Day, Antarctica Still Remains A Remote, Lonely And Desolate Continent. A Place Where It's Possible To See The Splendours And Immensities Of The Natural World At Its Most Dramatic And, What's More, Witness Them Almost Exactly As They Were, Long, Long Before Human Beings Ever Arrived On The Surface Of This Planet. Long May It Remain So.

I'd Like To See The Giant Squid. Nobody Has Ever Seen One. I Could Tell You People Who Have Spent Thousands And Thousands Of Pounds Trying To See Giant Squid. I Mean, We Know They Exist Because We Have Seen Dead Ones. But I Have Never Seen A Living One. Nor Has Anybody Else.

The Only Acceptable Way To Solve Ecological Problems Is If You Can Persuade People To Have Fewer Children. In The Victorian Times, There Were Families Of 15 Children. Someone Like Edward Lear, He Was The Last Of 21 Children. And So What We Have To Think About Is Offering People The Alternative Choice. And In The West, That's What's Happening. The Birth Rate Has Been Dropping Steadily And Still Is. I'm Wanting Human Beings To Be Better Off So They Don't View Children As An Insurance For The Future.