I showed the boy a recording of the 10 minute sequence in David Attenborough’s recent film, Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, as I thought it was a great way of showing a kid the basics of evolution. It’s available here for all to see. He was tired after a long day but still watched attentively.
At breakfast this morning with his little sister, I overheard the following snippets of conversation as I walked in & out of the kitchen:
Him: “It started in the water, and some creatures came out to live on the land….some of them became reptiles…..after that [the event that wiped out the dinosaurs] the only ones that surviced were ones that could fly. And they became birds!….did you know there are 75,000 species of insects, alone?”
Her: “Wow”.
Thanks, Mr Attenborough. There will be no images of Adam & Eve riding around on dinosaurs in our house!