Cherie's Place » Charles Darwin http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:37:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2014/08/31/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-274/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2014/08/31/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-274/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:43:55 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=13428 Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

Charles Robert Darwin (1809 – 1882)

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Photo from from VPRO Beagle on Flickr – click on picture for more photos.

The Clipper Stad Amsterdam set sail from Plymouth harbor today following the steps of Darwin’s famous voyage of discovery.  The people involved in the project hope to retrace the route of Darwin’s 5 year voyage on HMS Beagle in a single year.

During the voyage the participants are hoping to assess where the world stands today in light of Darwin’s theory of evolution.  The journey will form the basis of a 41 episode documentary that is being filmed for VPRO Dutch TV.

Journalist and historian Chris Lloyd, who wrote the book What on Earth Happened? will be joining the voyage for the first leg of the journey to Tenerife.  Other participants include, Sarah Darwin, great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, palaeontologist Peter Ward, anthropologist Michael Heckenberger, geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells and Daniel Dennett, one of today’s most prominent and influential American philosophers. They will be joined by fossil-hunters, DNA researchers, geologists and archaeologists.

From the Beagle website:

To celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birth year, and the 150th anniversary of his publication of “On the Origin of Species”, VPRO is preparing a 35-part series called Beagle: On the future of species. Life on earth is under continual change. Is there reason to worry about the future? Can science offer us sufficient answers to some of our most compelling questions? Are we leaving behind an inhabitable world for future generations?

Our VPRO-Beagle ship the Clipper Stad Amsterdam is an experiment in itself. This three mast sailing ship will be rigged with advanced scientific measurement equipment. Scientists from various disciplines and from all over the world will execute experiments on board this sailing science lab. The ship also has a built-in TV studio from which parts of the series will be produced and broadcast.

Beagle will take viewers on a journey across magnificent landscapes, vulnerable regions, endangered areas and adventurous locations, stretching from Patagonia to the South Pacific, and from Australia to St. Helena. En route one recurrent question will be asked: “Will the earth survive mankind?”

You can follow the journey on the interactive website, where Chris will be blogging daily during his part of the voyage.

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